What is Bell states?
The Bell states are four specific maximally entangled quantum states of two qubits.
|Ψ±⟩=1√2(|0⟩|1⟩±|1⟩|0⟩)|Φ±⟩=1√2(|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.
Hadamard gate
It is equivalent to the following unitary transformation:
|0⟩→1√2(|0⟩+|1⟩)|1⟩→1√2(|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,
1√2(|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⟩=|0⟩⊗M+|1⟩⊗M√2. which is different with this paper “Quantum Teleportation and Multi-photon Entanglement, Jian-Wei Pan”
Reference
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_state
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenberger%E2%80%93Horne%E2%80%93Zeilinger_state
- Quantum Teleportation and Multi-photon Entanglement, Jian-Wei Pan