Preparation of multiphoton high-dimensional GHZ state

Abstract

Multipartite high-dimensional entanglement presents different physics from multipartite two-dimensional entanglement. However, how to prepare multipartite high-dimensional entanglement is still a challenge with linear optics. In this paper, a multiphoton GHZ state with arbitrary dimensions preparation protocol is proposed in optical systems. In this protocol, we use auxiliary entanglements to realize a high-dimensional entanglement gate, so that high-dimensional entangled pairs can be connected into a multipartite high-dimensional GHZ state. Specifically, we give an example of using photons' path degree of freedom to prepare a 4-particle 3-dimensional GHZ state. Our method can be extended to other degrees of freedom and can generate arbitrary GHZ entanglement in any dimension.