Dispersion and fidelity in quantum interferometry

Details Dispersion and fidelity in quantum interferometry Dispersion and fidelity in quantum interferometry

2008-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4501v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

12 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Physical Review A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.053829

We consider Mach-Zehnder and Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometers with nonclassical states of light as input, and study the effect that dispersion inside the interferometer has on the sensitivity of phase measurements. We study in detail a number of different one- and two-photon input states, including Fock, dual Fock, N00N states, and photon pairs from parametric downconversion. Assuming there is a phase shift $\phi_0$ in one arm of the interferometer, we compute the probabilities of measurement outcomes as a function of $\phi_0$, and then compute the Shannon mutual information between $\phi_0$ and the measurements. This provides a means of quantitatively comparing the utility of various input states for determining the phase in the presence of dispersion. In addition, we consider a simplified model of parametric downconversion for which probabilities can be explicitly computed analytically, and which serves as a limiting case of the more realistic downconversion model.

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