Quantum optical coherence can survive photon losses: a continuous-variable quantum erasure correcting code

Details Quantum optical coherence can survive photon losses: a continuous-variable quantum erasure correcting code Quantum optical coherence can survive photon losses: a continuous-variable quantum erasure correcting code

2010-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/1006.3941v1

Nature Photonics 4, 700 - 705 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1038/nphoton.2010.168

A fundamental requirement for enabling fault-tolerant quantum information processing is an efficient quantum error-correcting code (QECC) that robustly protects the involved fragile quantum states from their environment. Just as classical error-correcting codes are indispensible in today's information technologies, it is believed that QECC will play a similarly crucial role in tomorrow's quantum information systems. Here, we report on the first experimental demonstration of a quantum erasure-correcting code that overcomes the devastating effect of photon losses. Whereas {\it errors} translate, in an information theoretic language, the noise affecting a transmission line, {\it erasures} correspond to the in-line probabilistic loss of photons. Our quantum code protects a four-mode entangled mesoscopic state of light against erasures, and its associated encoding and decoding operations only require linear optics and Gaussian resources. Since in-line attenuation is generally the strongest limitation to quantum communication, much more than noise, such an erasure-correcting code provides a new tool for establishing quantum optical coherence over longer distances. We investigate two approaches for circumventing in-line losses using this code, and demonstrate that both approaches exhibit transmission fidelities beyond what is possible by classical means.

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