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Extracting the photon indistinguishability error from measurable quantum observables

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01731v1
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:15:43 GMT
Title: Extracting the photon indistinguishability error from measurable quantum observables
Authors: Franciscus H. B. Somhorst, Jason Saied, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Jelmer J. Renema,
Abstract summary: We present a method to extract the photon indistinguishability error from Hong-Ou-Mandel interference measurements.<n>The reported method applies to a wide range of single-photon sources, including quantum dots.
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Abstract: We present a method to extract the photon indistinguishability error from Hong-Ou-Mandel interference measurements, accounting for the combined effects of loss and multiphoton noise that contaminate the single-photon Hilbert space. Our analysis resolves apparent inconsistencies in previous interpretations of such measurements. The reported method applies to a wide range of single-photon sources, including quantum dots.

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