Near-deterministic generation of four-mode W-type entangled coherent states

作者:Guo, Yu; Kuang, Le Man*
来源:Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics , 2007, 40(16): 3309-3318.
DOI:10.1088/0953-4075/40/16/011

摘要

In this paper, we propose an optical scheme to generate four-mode W-type entangled coherent states ( ECSs) in free travelling optical fields by using a single-photon source, coherent state sources, beam splitters, photodetectors and cross-Kerr media. Our scheme consists of a symmetric optical setup in which there are two Mach-Zehnder interferometers in which each arm contains a cross-Kerr medium. We calculate the average fidelity of generated W-type ECSs, the success probability of producing four-mode W-type ECSs and the average fidelity of the generated four-mode W-type ECSs. It is indicated that our protocol is nearly deterministic.