(1) Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3PU Oxford, England;(2) Physics Department, Bose Institute, 93/1, A.P.C. Road, 700 009 Kolkata, India
Abstract:
We present a general scheme for entangling any degree of freedom of two uncorrelated identical particles from independent sources by a combination of two-particle interferometry and which-way detection. We show that this entanglement generation procedure works for completely random initial states of the variable to be entangled. We also demonstrate a curious complementarity exhibited by our scheme and its applications in estimating the generated entanglement as a function of wave packet overlap at the beamsplitter.