Nearly Deterministic Bell Measurement for Multiphoton Qubits and Its Application to Quantum Information Processing

Abstract

We propose a Bell measurement scheme by employing a logical qubit in Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entanglement with an arbitrary number of photons. Remarkably, the success probability of the Bell measurement as well as teleportation of the GHZ entanglement can be made arbitrarily high using only linear optics elements and photon on-off measurements as the number of photons increases. Our scheme outperforms previous proposals using single photon qubits when comparing the success probabilities in terms of the average photon usages. It has another important advantage for experimental feasibility that it does not require photon number resolving measurements. Our proposal provides an alternative candidate for all-optical quantum information processing.

7 pages (including supplementary material), 2 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett