Arbitrary high-dimensional entanglement purification with the superposition of paths

Abstract

High-dimensional quantum entanglement offers significant advantages over its two-dimensional counterparts in various quantum information processing tasks. We propose a scalable method for implementing an arbitrary high-dimensional entanglement purification protocol (HDEPP) using path superposition. By selecting appropriate single-qudit gates, qudit-flip errors and phase-flip errors can be purified. Counterintuitively, the HDEPP becomes more robust for higher-dimensional systems and exhibits enhanced purification fidelity as the dimension increases. Our HDEPP not only requires fewer operational resources but also in principle can achieve unity fidelity through multiple rounds of iteration. Furthermore, we develop feasible optical schemes to purify the frequency degree of freedom of photons suffering from qudit-flip and phase-flip errors using hyperentanglement. This work paves the way toward high-dimensional quantum communication and quantum networks.

15 pages, 6 figures

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