Discrimination of optical coherent states using a photon number resolving detector

DOI10.1080/09500340903145031MaRDI QIDQ3568935zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Christoffer Wittmann, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs

Publication date 16 June 2010

Published in Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2496

zbMATH Keywords

quantum informationquantum receiversquantum state discrimination

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: The discrimination of non-orthogonal quantum states with reduced or without errors is a fundamental task in quantum measurement theory. In this work, we investigate a quantum measurement strategy capable of discriminating two coherent states probabilistically with significantly smaller error probabilities than can be obtained using non-probabilistic state discrimination. We find that appropriate postselection of the measurement data of a photon number resolving detector can be used to discriminate two coherent states with small error probability. We compare our new receiver to an optimal intermediate measurement between minimum error discrimination and unambiguous state discrimination.

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