High-fidelity entanglement swapping and generation of three-qubit GHZ state using asynchronous telecom photon pair sources.
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| Abstract |    :  
                  We experimentally demonstrate a high-fidelity entanglement swapping and a generation of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state using polarization-entangled photon pairs at telecommunication wavelength produced by spontaneous parametric down conversion with continuous-wave pump light. While spatially separated sources asynchronously emit photon pairs, the time-resolved photon detection guarantees the temporal indistinguishability of photons without active timing synchronizations of pump lasers and/or adjustment of optical paths. In the experiment, photons are sufficiently narrowed by fiber-based Bragg gratings with the central wavelengths of 1541 nm & 1580 nm, and detected by superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with low timing jitters. The observed fidelities of the final states for entanglement swapping and the generated three-qubit state were 0.84 ± 0.04 and 0.70 ± 0.05, respectively.  | 
        
| Year of Publication |    :  
                  2018 
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| Journal |    :  
                  Scientific reports 
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| Volume |    :  
                  8 
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| Issue |    :  
                  1 
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| Number of Pages |    :  
                  1446 
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| Date Published |    :  
                  2018 
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| URL |    :  
                  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19738-8 
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| DOI |    :  
                  10.1038/s41598-018-19738-8 
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| Short Title |    :  
                  Sci Rep 
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