Experimental entanglement distillation of two-qubit mixed states under local operations

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jun 9;96(22):220505. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.220505. Epub 2006 Jun 8.

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate optimal entanglement distillation from two forms of two-qubit mixed states under local filtering operations according to the constructive method introduced by [F. Verstraete, Phys. Rev. A 64, 010101(R) (2001)10.1103/PhysRevA.64.010101]. In principle, our setup can be easily applied to distilling entanglement from arbitrary two-qubit partially mixed states. We also test the violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shinmony-Holt inequality for the distilled state from the first form of mixed state to show its "hidden nonlocality."