An Optical Setup for Deterministic Creation of Four Partite <i>W</i> state

Abstract

In order to create polarization based entanglement networks of W-4 state, we propose an optical setup, which uses only four horizontally polarized photons as resource which implies no entanglement requirement as a resource. This setup can generate target state deterministically, by operating several quantum optical gates, which can be realized with current photonics technology. The setup we propose is composed of one Not, two Hadamard, five Controlled Not (CNot) and one Toffoli gate.