Nondemolition measurement of the vacuum state or its complement
Oi, Daniel K. L. and Potocek, Vaclav and Jeffers, John (2013) Nondemolition measurement of the vacuum state or its complement. Physical Review Letters, 110 (21). 210504. ISSN 0031-9007
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Abstract
Measurement is integral to quantum information processing and communication; it is how information encoded in the state of a system is transformed into classical signals for further use. In quantum optics, measurements are typically destructive, so that the state is not available afterwards for further steps. Here we show how to measure the presence or absence of the vacuum in a quantum optical field without destroying the state, implementing the ideal projections onto the respective subspaces. This not only enables sequential measurements, useful for quantum communication, but it can also be adapted to create novel states of light via bare raising and lowering operators.
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Oi, Daniel K. L. ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 44519 |
Keywords: | atoms, single photons, quantum optics, Optics. Light, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics |
Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light |
Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 21 Aug 2013 15:52 |
Last modified: | 20 Jan 2021 20:47 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44519 |
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