A Practical Scheme for Entanglement Concentration

Abstract

We present a realistic purification scheme for pure non-maximally entangled states. In the scheme, Alice and Bob at two distant parties first start with two shared but less entangled photon pairs to produce a conditional four-photon GHZ state, then perform a 45-degree polarization measurement onto one of the two photons at each party such that the remaining two photons are projected onto a maximally entangled state.

9 pages, 1 figure (to be published in Phy.Rev.A)