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Enabling entanglement distillation via optomechanics

Montenegro, V; Ferraro, A; Bose, S; (2019) Enabling entanglement distillation via optomechanics. Physical Review A , 100 (4) , Article 042310. 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.042310. Green open access

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Abstract

Quantum networking based on optical Gaussian states, although promising in terms of scalability, is hindered by the fact that their entanglement cannot be distilled via Gaussian operations. We show that optomechanics, and particularly the possibility to measure the mechanical degree of freedom in an integrable system, can address this problem. Here, one of the optical modes of a two-mode squeezed vacuum is injected into a single-sided Fabry-Pérot cavity and nonlinearly coupled to a mechanical oscillator. Afterwards, the position of the oscillator is measured using pulsed optomechanics and homodyne detection. We show that this measurement can supply non-Gaussian entangled states frequently enough to enable scalable entanglement distillation. Moreover, it can conditionally increase the initial entanglement under an optimal radiation-pressure interaction strength, which corresponds to an effective unsharp measurement of the photon number inside the cavity. We show how the resulting entanglement enhancement can be verified by using a standard teleportation procedure.

Type: Article
Title: Enabling entanglement distillation via optomechanics
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.042310
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.042310
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Optics, Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical, Physics, SINGLE PHOTONS, QUANTUM, STATES, LIGHT, TELEPORTATION, PURIFICATION, MIRROR
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10087147
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