Maximal entanglement increase with single-photon subtraction

Kun Zhang; Jietai Jing; Nicolas Treps; Mattia Walschaers

doi:10.22331/q-2022-05-02-704

Maximal entanglement increase with single-photon subtraction

Kun Zhang¹, Jietai Jing^1,2,3,4, Nicolas Treps⁵, and Mattia Walschaers⁵

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Joint Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
²CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China
³Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
⁴Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China
⁵Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ENS-Université PSL, Collège de France, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France

Published:	2022-05-02, volume 6, page 704
Eprint:	arXiv:2103.09197v2
Doi:	https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-05-02-704
Citation:	Quantum 6, 704 (2022).

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Abstract

Entanglement is an indispensable quantum resource for quantum information technology. In continuous-variable quantum optics, photon subtraction can increase the entanglement between Gaussian states of light, but for mixed states the extent of this entanglement increase is poorly understood. In this work, we use an entanglement measure based the Rényi-2 entropy to prove that single-photon subtraction increases bipartite entanglement by no more than log 2. This value coincides with the maximal amount of bipartite entanglement that can be achieved with one photon. The upper bound is valid for all Gaussian input states, regardless of the number of modes and the purity.

Popular summary

When developing light-based quantum technologies, Gaussian quantum states -thus called because the measurement statistic of the electromagnetic field follows a Gaussian distribution- are a convenient resource. These states allow us to create large entangled states in a deterministic way. However, to perform interesting quantum protocols that cannot be mimicked with classical resources Gaussian states are insufficient and additional resources are required to make these states non-Gaussian.
Quantum opticians often rely on an operation known as photon subtraction to render quantum states non-Gaussian. In this probabilistic operation, we literally remove one photon from the light in a well-controlled way. In our work, we perform this operation on one subsystem of a large entangled state. Because the operation is probabilistic it is not always successful, but when it is the entanglement between the different subsystems can be increased. The main goal of our work is to provide new quantitative understanding of this entanglement increase.
In our article, we manage to show an intuitive and insightful bound that holds for arbitrary initial Gaussian states, regardless of their purity, mean field, or the number of modes. Our bound can be understood as saying that the increase of entanglement through photon subtraction can never be larger than the maximal amount of entanglement that can be generated by a single photon. This amount of entanglement corresponds to the amount of entanglement that is reached when a photon is sent through a balanced beamsplitter, which creates a Bell state.

► BibTeX data

@article{Zhang2022maximalentanglement,
  doi = {10.22331/q-2022-05-02-704},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-05-02-704},
  title = {Maximal entanglement increase with single-photon subtraction},
  author = {Zhang, Kun and Jing, Jietai and Treps, Nicolas and Walschaers, Mattia},
  journal = {{Quantum}},
  issn = {2521-327X},
  publisher = {{Verein zur F{\"{o}}rderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften}},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {704},
  month = may,
  year = {2022}
}

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