@inproceedings{474f797546124987b76f11599b3f2495,
title = "An elementary optical gate for expanding symmetrically shared entanglement",
abstract = "We introduce an elementary optical gate based on post-selection strategy that enables not only to prepare polarization entangled W state, but also to grow this into a large-scale multi-photon W state. The gate is composed of a pair of 50:50 beamsplitters and a phase shifter, and it requires a two-photon ancillary state. When the input is a photon from an n-photon W state, the gate produces an (n∈+∈2)-photon W state for post-selected events. Moreover, we show that this gate can be used to prepare and expand GHZ states by a simple modification of the ancillary state.",
author = "Toshiyuki Tashima and {\"O}zdemir, {{\c S}ahin Kaya} and Takashi Yamamoto and Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-89304-2_7",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540893032",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "70--82",
booktitle = "Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography - Third Workshop, TQC 2008, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "Germany",
note = "3rd Workshop on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography, TQC 2008 ; Conference date: 30-01-2008 Through 01-02-2008",
}