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Complementarity and Information in “Delayed-choice for Entanglement Swapping”

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Building on Peres’ idea of “Delayed-choice for entanglement swapping” we show that even the degree to which quantum systems were entangled can be defined after they have been registered and may even not exist any more. This does not arise as a paradox if the quantum state is viewed as just a representative of information. Moreover such a view gives a natural quantification of the complementarity between the measure of information about the input state for teleportation and the amount of entanglement of the resulting swapped entangled state.

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  1. Časlav Brukner

    Present address: Optics Section, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BW, UK

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  1. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A–1090, Wien, Austria

    Časlav Brukner, Markus Aspelmeyer & Anton Zeilinger

  2. Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, A–1090, Wien, Austria

    Časlav Brukner, Markus Aspelmeyer & Anton Zeilinger

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PACS Numbers: 03.65.-w,03.65.Ud,03.67.-a

This Paper is Dedicated to Prof. Asher Peres on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday.

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Brukner, Č., Aspelmeyer, M. & Zeilinger, A. Complementarity and Information in “Delayed-choice for Entanglement Swapping”. Found Phys 35, 1909–1919 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-005-7355-2

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