Tomography of a Feedback Measurement with Photon Detection

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Abstract

Quantum measurement is essential to both the foundations and practical applications of quantum information science. Among many possible models of quantum measurement, feedback measurements that dynamically update their physical structure are highly interesting due to their flexibility, which enables a wide range of measurements that might otherwise be hard to implement. Here we investigate by detector tomography a measurement consisting of a displacement operation combined with photon detection followed by a real time feedback operation. We design the measurement in order to discriminate the superposition of vacuum and single photon states—the single-rail qubit—and find that it can discriminate the superposition states with a certainty of 96%. Such a feedback-controlled photon counter will facilitate the realization of quantum information protocols with single-rail qubits as well as the nonlocality test of certain entangled states.
Original languageEnglish
Article number070502
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume124
Issue number7
Number of pages6
ISSN0031-9007
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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