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Entangled mixed-state generation by twin-photon scattering

G. Puentes, D. Voigt, A. Aiello, J. P. Woerdman

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0607014

Abstract

We report experimental results on mixed-state generation by multiple scattering of polarization-entangled photon pairs created from parametric down-conversion. By using a large variety of scattering optical systems we have experimentally obtained entangled mixed states that lie upon and below the Werner curve in the linear entropy-tangle plane. We have also introduced a simple phenomenological model built on the analogy between classical polarization optics and quantum maps. Theoretical predictions from such model are in full agreement with our experimental findings.

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