摘要

We propose a practical scheme for concentrating entanglement in a pair of unknown partially entangled three-photon W states with only linear optics and photon detectors. In the scheme. Alice, Bob, and Charlie at three distant; parties can obtain one maximally entangled three-photon W state with a certain success probability from two identical partially entangled three-photon W states by local operations and classical communication. The proposed setup is very simple, which greatly simplifies the experimental realization of the scheme.