Efficient decoherence-free entanglement distribution over lossy quantum channels

Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Mar 18;106(11):110503. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.110503. Epub 2011 Mar 14.

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a scheme for boosting the efficiency of entanglement distribution based on a decoherence-free subspace over lossy quantum channels. By using backward propagation of a coherent light, our scheme achieves an entanglement-sharing rate that is proportional to the transmittance T of the quantum channel in spite of encoding qubits in multipartite systems for the decoherence-free subspace. We experimentally show that highly entangled states, which can violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality, are distributed at a rate proportional to T.