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View SchemaPhoton Added Detection
| Authors | A. M. Branczyk, Tobias J. Osborne, Alexei Gilchrist, T. C. Ralph |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0305185 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0305185 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.043821 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 68, 043821 (2003) |
Abstract
The production of conditional quantum states and quantum operations based on the result of measurement is now seen as a key tool in quantum information and metrology. We propose a new type of photon number detector. It functions non-deterministically, but when successful, it has high fidelity. The detector, which makes use of an n-photon auxiliary Fock state and high efficiency Homodyne detection, allows a tunable tradeoff between fidelity and probability. By sacrificing probability of operation, an excellent approximation to a photon number detector is achieved.
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