J4 ›› 2009, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (4): 446-450.

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The entanglement swapping of tripartite entangled coherent state by linear optics devices

LI Dong-Mei   

  1. College of Physics and Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, Shandong, 273165, China
  • Received:2009-03-30 Revised:2009-04-06 Published:2009-07-28 Online:2009-06-29

Abstract:

A scheme for the entanglement swapping of entangled states with continuous variable is presented, in which the bipartite maximally entangled coherent state serves as the quantum channel. With the help of the idea of teleportation and using beam splitter and phase-shifter we can realize entanglement swapping of tripartite entangled coherent state. In this scheme, the entanglement swapping is failure only for a measurement process. But the failure probability is very small. The detail results show that the probability and the minimum of total average fidelity for successful swapping an arbitrary tripartite entangled coherent state is nearly 1 when the mean number of photons is larger than 2.

Key words: quantum information, entanglement swapping, linear optics device, entangled coherent state, teleportation, fidelity