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View SchemaFeed-forward and its role in conditional linear optical quantum dynamics
| Authors | S. Scheel, W. J. Munro, J. Eisert, K. Nemoto, P. Kok |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0509075 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0509075 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.034301 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 73, 034301 (2006) |
Abstract
Nonlinear optical quantum gates can be created probabilistically using only single photon sources, linear optical elements and photon-number resolving detectors. These gates are heralded but operate with probabilities much less than one. There is currently a large gap between the performance of the known circuits and the established upper bounds on their success probabilities. One possibility for increasing the probability of success of such gates is feed-forward, where one attempts to correct certain failure events that occurred in the gate's operation. In this brief report we examine the role of feed-forward in improving the success probability. In particular, for the non-linear sign shift gate, we find that in a three-mode implementation with a single round of feed-forward the optimal average probability of success is approximately given by p= 0.272. This value is only slightly larger than the general optimal success probability without feed-forward, P= 0.25.
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"title": "Feed-forward and its role in conditional linear optical quantum dynamics",
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