Scientists experimentally demonstrate a scheme that allows the number of qubits encoded per photon to be varied while keeping the overall quantum information constant. They also propose the inverse 'splitting' process.
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Neergaard-Nielsen, J. Two become one. Nature Photon 7, 512–513 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.169
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