Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2000-07-18
Appl. Phys. B 72, 67-71 (2001)
Physics
Quantum Physics
6 pages, 2 figs
Scientific paper
In a photonic realization of qubits the implementation of quantum logic is rather difficult due the extremely weak interaction on the few photon level. On the other hand, in these systems interference is available to process the quantum states. We formalize the use of interference by the definition of a simple class of operations which include linear optical elements, auxiliary states and conditional operations. We investigate an important subclass of these tools, namely linear optical elements and auxiliary modes in the vacuum state. For this tools, we are able to extend a previous quantitative result, a no-go theorem for perfect Bell state analyzer on two qubits in polarization entanglement, by a quantitative statement. We show, that within this subclass it is not possible to discriminate unambiguously four equiprobable Bell states with a probability higher than 50 %.
Calsamiglia John
Lütkenhaus Norbert
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