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This article demonstrates a scalable entanglement‑purification protocol that works for arbitrary $d$‑level, $n$‑party GHZ states, extending the toolbox of error mitigation beyond binary qubits to high‑dimensional photonic qudits. By showing how qudit‑flip and phase‑flip errors can be corrected with only linear optics (balanced beam splitters and phase shifters), it bridges a gap between theoretical advantages of qudits—higher information density and stronger noise resilience—and practical hardware implementations that are already emerging in integrated photonics. The work therefore paves the way for more robust multipartite quantum networks and could accelerate experiments that rely on high‑dimensional entanglement, although its performance will still depend on realistic loss rates and detector efficiencies.
— Mark Eatherly
Summary
High-dimensional qudit (i.e., $d$-level or $d$-state) systems outperform two-dimensional qubit (i.e., 2-level or 2-state) systems in some quantum information processing tasks. We exploit entanglement purification protocols (EPPs) for extracting a subset of high quality arbitrary $d$-dimensional $n$-partite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states from a large set of less entangled GHZ states. In our protocols, qudit-flip and phase-flip errors can be corrected, and the fidelity of the output state can be asymptotically improved to unity by iterating the EPP process. Moreover, the schemes are immune to the number of polluted photons, the fidelity thresholds of the proposed EPPs are developed, and the spatial-based single-qudit operations can be well manipulated with a range of balanced beam splitters, and phase shifters. These features make the proposed schemes offer an alternative method for high-dimensional multipartite entanglement purification.