Measurement of geometric phase for mixed states using single photon interferometry

Details Measurement of geometric phase for mixed states using single photon interferometry Measurement of geometric phase for mixed states using single photon interferometry

2004-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412216v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 050401 (2005)

Physics

Quantum Physics

To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. 4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.050401

Geometric phase may enable inherently fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, due to potential decoherence effects, it is important to understand how such phases arise for {\it mixed} input states. We report the first experiment to measure mixed-state geometric phases in optics, using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and polarization mixed states that are produced in two different ways: decohering pure states with birefringent elements; and producing a nonmaximally entangled state of two photons and tracing over one of them, a form of remote state preparation.

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