Experimental distribution of entanglement with separable carriers
arXiv:1303.4634 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.230504
Abstract
The key requirement for quantum networking is the distribution of entanglement between nodes. Surprisingly, entanglement can be generated across a network without direct transfer - or communication - of entanglement. In contrast to information gain, which cannot exceed the communicated information, the entanglement gain is bounded by the communicated quantum discord, a more general measure of quantum correlation that includes but is not limited to entanglement. Here, we experimentally entangle two communicating parties sharing three initially separable photonic qubits by exchange of a carrier photon that is unentangled with either party at all times. We show that distributing entanglement with separable carriers is resilient to noise and in some cases becomes the only way of distributing entanglement through noisy environments.
Published version. See also PRL 111, 230505 (2013) and PRL 111, 230506 (2013) for parallel works and Physics 6, 132 (2013) for viewpoint
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