Near-optimal coherent state discrimination via continuously labelled non-Gaussian measurements

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08032v1
• Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:25:59 GMT
• Title: Near-optimal coherent state discrimination via continuously labelled non-Gaussian measurements
• Authors: James Moran, Spiros Kechrimparis, Hyukjoon Kwon,
• Abstract summary: We show that non-Gaussian measurements can achieve near-optimal coherent state discrimination. We explicitly design two coherent state discrimination protocols based on non-Gaussian detection and unitary operations. Our results show that we can achieve error rates close to the Helstrom bound at low energies with continuously labelled measurements.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum state discrimination plays a central role in quantum information and communication. For the discrimination of optical quantum states, the two most widely adopted measurement techniques are photon detection, which produces discrete outcomes, and homodyne detection, which produces continuous outcomes. While various protocols using photon detection have been proposed for optimal and near-optimal discrimination between two coherent states, homodyne detection is known to have higher error rates, with its performance often referred to as the Gaussian limit. In this work, we demonstrate that, despite the fundamental differences between discretely labelled and continuously labelled measurements, continuously labelled non-Gaussian measurements can also achieve near-optimal coherent state discrimination. We explicitly design two coherent state discrimination protocols based on non-Gaussian unitary operations combined with homodyne detection and orthogonal polynomials, which surpass the Gaussian limit. Our results show that photon detection is not required for near-optimal coherent state discrimination and that we can achieve error rates close to the Helstrom bound at low energies with continuously labelled measurements. We also find that our schemes maintain an advantage over the photon detection-based Kennedy receiver for a moderate range of coherent state amplitudes.

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