The eight-port homodyne detector: the effect of imperfections on quantum
random number generation and on detection of quadratures
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10616v2
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 15:37:27 GMT
- Title: The eight-port homodyne detector: the effect of imperfections on quantum
random number generation and on detection of quadratures
- Authors: Alberto Barchielli and Alberto Santamato
- Abstract summary: The eight-port homodyne detector is an optical circuit designed to perform the monitoring of two quadratures of an optical field, the signal.
We give a complete quantum description of this apparatus, when used as quadrature detector in continuous time.
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- Abstract: The eight-port homodyne detector is an optical circuit designed to perform
the monitoring of two quadratures of an optical field, the signal. By using
quantum Bose fields and quantum stochastic calculus, we give a complete quantum
description of this apparatus, when used as quadrature detector in continuous
time. We can treat either the travelling waves in the optical circuit, either
the observables involved in the detection part: two couples of photodiodes,
postprocessing of the output currents. The analysis includes imperfections,
such as not perfectly balanced beam splitters, detector efficiency, electronic
noise, phase and intensity noise in the laser acting as local oscillator; this
last noise is modelled by using mixtures of field coherent states as
statistical operator of the laser component. Due to the monitoring in
continuous time, the output is a stochastic process and its full probability
distribution is obtained. When the output process is sampled at discrete times,
the quantum description can be reduced to discrete mode operators, but at the
price of having random operators, which contain also the noise of the local
oscillator. Consequently, the local oscillator noise has a very different
effect on the detection results with respect to an additive noise, such as the
noise in the electronic components. As an application, the problem of secure
random number generation is considered, based on the local oscillator shot
noise. The rate of random bits that can be generated is quantified by the
min-entropy; the possibility of classical and quantum side information is taken
into account by suitable conditional min-entropies. The final rate depends on
which parts of the apparatus are considered to be secure and on which ones are
considered to be exposed to the intervention of an intruder. In some
experimentally realistic situations, the entropy losses are computed.
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