Increasing entanglement between Gaussian states by coherent photon subtraction

Alexei Ourjoumtsev (1) , Aurelien Dantan (1) , Rosa Tualle-Brouri (1) , Philippe Grangier (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique quantique

We experimentally demonstrate that the entanglement between Gaussian entangled states can be increased by non-Gaussian operations. Coherent subtraction of single photons from Gaussian quadrature-entangled light pulses, created by a non-degenerate parametric amplifier, produces delocalized states with negative Wigner functions and complex structures, more entangled than the initial states in terms of negativity. The experimental results are in very good agreement with the theoretical predictions.

Mots clés: quantum state reconstruction; non classical states; quantum information; entanglement distillation

Domaines: Physique Quantique [quant-ph]

Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Aurelien Dantan, Rosa Tualle-Brouri, Philippe Grangier. Increasing entanglement between Gaussian states by coherent photon subtraction. Physical Review Letters, 2007, 98, pp.030502. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.030502⟩. ⟨hal-00090186v4⟩