Experimental Realization of Dicke States of up to Six Qubits for Multiparty Quantum Networking

Author(s)
Robert Prevedel, Gunther Cronenberg, Mark S Tame, Mauro Paternostro, Philip Walther, Myung Sunny Kim, Anton Zeilinger
Abstract

We report the first experimental generation and characterization of a six-photon Dicke state. The produced state shows a fidelity of F=0.56±0.02 with respect to an ideal Dicke state and violates a witness detecting genuine six-qubit entanglement by 4 standard deviations. We confirm characteristic Dicke properties of our resource and demonstrate its versatility by projecting out four- and five-photon Dicke states, as well as four-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W states. We also show that Dicke states have interesting applications in multiparty quantum networking protocols such as open-destination teleportation, telecloning, and quantum secret sharing.

Organisation(s)
Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
External organisation(s)
Queen's University Belfast, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
103
No. of pages
4
ISSN
0031-9007
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.020503
Publication date
2009
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
1030 Physics, Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/ae52c2be-90ea-43b5-b124-00bebc70627f