Experimental orthogonalization of highly overlapping quantum states with single photons

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العنوان: Experimental orthogonalization of highly overlapping quantum states with single photons
المؤلفون: Zhu, Gaoyan, Kalman, Orsolya, Wang, Kunkun, Xiao, Lei, Qu, Dengke, Zhan, Xiang, Bian, Zhihao, Kiss, Tamas, Xue, Peng
المصدر: Phys. Rev. A 100, 052307 (2019)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantum Physics
الوصف: We experimentally realize a nonlinear quantum protocol on single-photon qubits with linear optical elements and appropriate measurements. The quantum nonlinearity is induced by post-selecting the polarization qubit based on a measurement result obtained on the spatial degree of freedom of the single photon which plays the role of a second qubit. Initially, both qubits are prepared in the same quantum state and an appropriate two-qubit unitary transformation entangles them before the measurement on the spatial part. We analyze the result by quantum state tomography on the polarization degree of freedom. We then demonstrate the usefulness of the protocol for quantum state discrimination by iteratively applying it on either one of two slightly different quantum states which rapidly converge to different orthogonal states by the iterative dynamics. Our work opens the door to employ effective quantum nonlinear evolution for quantum information processing.
Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.052307
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10377
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1910.10377
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.100.052307