Abstract

Multi-photon entangled states not only play a crucial role in research on quantum physics but also have many applications in quantum information fields such as quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum metrology. To fully exploit the multi-photon entangled states, it is important to establish the interaction between entangled photons and matter, which requires that photons have narrow bandwidth. Here, we report on the experimental generation of a narrowband four-photon Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state with a fidelity of 64.9% through multiplexing two spontaneous four-wave mixings in a cold ${}^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ atomic ensemble. The full bandwidth of the generated GHZ state is about 19.5 MHz. Thus, the generated photons can effectively match the atoms, which are very suitable for building a quantum computation and quantum communication network based on atomic ensembles.

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