Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-08-04
Physics
Quantum Physics
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
Strategies to optimally discriminate between quantum states are critical in quantum technologies. We present an experimental demonstration of minimum error discrimination between entangled states, encoded in the polarization of pairs of photons. Although the optimal measurement involves projecting onto entangled states, we use a result of Walgate et al. to design an optical implementation employing only local polarization measurements and feed-forward, which performs at the Helstrom bound. Our scheme can achieve perfect discrimination of orthogonal states and minimum error discrimination of non-orthogonal states. Our experimental results show a definite advantage over schemes not using feed-forward.
Coish Nick
Croke Sarah
Hamel Deny R.
Kaltenbaek Rainer
Lu Yang
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