Hyperentangled Bell-state analysis
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چکیده
It is known that it is impossible to unambiguously distinguish the four Bell states encoded in pairs of photon polarizations using only linear optics. However, hyperentanglement, the simultaneous entanglement in more than one degree of freedom, has been shown to assist the complete Bell analysis of the four Bell states given a fixed state of the other degrees of freedom . Yet introducing other degrees of freedom also enlarges the total number of Bell-like states. We investigate the limits for unambiguously distinguishing these Bell-like states. In particular, when the additional degree of freedom is qubitlike, we find that the optimal one-shot discrimination schemes are to group the 16 states into seven distinguishable classes, and that an unambiguous discrimination is possible with two identical copies.
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