Fidelity and Coherence Measures from Interference

Details Fidelity and Coherence Measures from Interference Fidelity and Coherence Measures from Interference

2006-03-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603157v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 4 Figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.220404

By utilizing single particle interferometry, the fidelity or coherence of a pair of quantum states is identified with their capacity for interference. We consider processes acting on the internal degree of freedom (e.g., spin or polarization) of the interfering particle, preparing it in states \rho_{A} or \rho_{B} in the respective path of the interferometer. The maximal visibility depends on the choice of interferometer, as well as the locality or non-locality of the preparations, but otherwise depends only on the states \rho_{A} and \rho_{B} and not the individual preparation processes themselves. This allows us to define interferometric measures which probe locality and correlation properties of spatially or temporally separated processes, and can be used to differentiate between processes that cannot be distinguished by direct process tomography using only the internal state of the particle.

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