Discrimination of Optical Coherent States using a Photon Number Resolving Detector

Details Discrimination of Optical Coherent States using a Photon Number Resolving Detector Discrimination of Optical Coherent States using a Photon Number Resolving Detector

2009-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/0905.2496v3

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1080/09500340903145031

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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