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Bell State and GHZ State

What is Bell states?

The Bell states are four specific maximally entangled quantum states of two qubits.
|Ψ±=12(|0|1±|1|0)|Φ±=12(|0|0±|1|1)

How to generate and measure Bell states?

It is easy to generate and measure Bell states with Hadamard gate and Controled-Not gate.
The Bell measurement: the gates on the left hand side allow us to generate the four Bell states from the four possible different inputs. Reversing the order of the gates (right-hand side of the diagram) corresponds to a Bell measurement.
The Bell measurement: the gates on the left hand side allow us to generate the four Bell states from the four possible different inputs. Reversing the order of the gates (right-hand side of the diagram) corresponds to a Bell measurement.

Hadamard gate

It is equivalent to the following unitary transformation:
|012(|0+|1)|112(|0|1)

Controled-Not gate

It flips the second of two qubits if and only if the first is |1, namely

|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|1|1|0|1|1|1|1|1|0
The first qubit control whether apply ‘NOT’ on the other qubit.

Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state (GHZ state)

Maximally entangled three-particle states, that is,
12(|a|b|c±|¯a|¯b|¯c)
where a, b and c can each take the values 0 and 1 and ¯a and ¯band ¯c denote NOT-a and NOT-b
I feel confused in this place. Wikipedia says GHZ state is only |GHZ=|0M+|1M2. which is different with this paper “Quantum Teleportation and Multi-photon Entanglement, Jian-Wei Pan”

Reference

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_state
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenberger%E2%80%93Horne%E2%80%93Zeilinger_state
  3. Quantum Teleportation and Multi-photon Entanglement, Jian-Wei Pan