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Implementation of projective measurements with linear optics and continuous photon counting

Masahiro Takeoka, Masahide Sasaki, Peter van Loock, Norbert Lütkenhaus

abstract: We investigate the possibility of implementing a given projection measurement using linear optics and arbitrarily fast feedforward based on the continuous detection of photons. In particular, we systematically derive the so-called Dolinar scheme that achieves the minimum error discrimination of binary coherent states. Moreover, we show that the Dolinar-type approach can also be applied to projection measurements in the regime of photonic-qubit signals. Our results demonstrate that for implementing a projection measurement with linear optics, in principle, unit success probability may be approached even without the use of expensive entangled auxiliary states, as they are needed in all known (near-)deterministic linear-optics proposals.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0410133
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
11 pages, 2 figures, updated to the published version
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.71.022318
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0410133
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. A 71, 022318 (2005)
created:
2004-10-18
updated:
2005-03-03

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