Quantum State Characterization Using Measurement Configurations Inspired by Homodyne Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19397v1
• Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 20:20:59 GMT
• Title: Quantum State Characterization Using Measurement Configurations Inspired by Homodyne Detection
• Authors: Arik Avagyan
• Abstract summary: In quantum information processing, states of interest are in well-separated modes, corresponding to a pulsed configuration with one relevant LO mode per measurement. We theoretically investigate what can be learned about the unknown optical state by counting photons in one or both outgoing paths after the beam splitter (BS) When the BS acts identically on all matching modes it is possible to determine the content of the unknown optical state in the mode matching the LO conditional on each number of photons.
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• Abstract: In the standard homodyne configuration, an unknown optical state is combined with a local oscillator (LO) on a beam splitter (BS). Good quadrature measurements require a high-amplitude LO and two high-efficiency photodiodes whose signals are subtracted and normalized. By changing the LO phase, it is then possible to infer the optical state in the mode matching the LO. For quantum information processing, the states of interest are in well-separated modes, corresponding to a pulsed configuration with one relevant LO mode per measurement. We theoretically investigate what can be learned about the unknown optical state by counting photons in one or both outgoing paths after the BS, keeping the LO mode fixed but choosing its phase and magnitude. We consider measurement configurations where the BS acts differently on different sets of matching modes. When the BS acts identically on all matching modes it is possible to determine the content of the unknown optical state in the mode matching the LO conditional on each number of photons in the orthogonal modes on the same path. In particular, if both the phase and the intensity of the LO can be varied, then the statistics of just one of the counters is enough to infer these parameters, while in the case of an LO with fixed intensity both detectors are needed to accomplish this. Our results are derived by demonstrating a bijection, or lack thereof, between the probability distributions over the space of outcomes of the counter(s) and certain parameters of the unknown state for different measurement configuration. We report an experiment that was conducted to demonstrate the theory in the case where the BS acts differently depending on the polarization.

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