A Hybrid Approach to Mitigate Errors in Linear Photonic Bell-State Measurement for Quantum Interconnects

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Hauptverfasser: Asenbeck, Beate E., Kawasaki, Akito, Boyer, Ambroise, Darras, Tom, Urvoy, Alban, Furusawa, Akira, Laurat, Julien
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author Asenbeck, Beate E.
Kawasaki, Akito
Boyer, Ambroise
Darras, Tom
Urvoy, Alban
Furusawa, Akira
Laurat, Julien
author_facet Asenbeck, Beate E.
Kawasaki, Akito
Boyer, Ambroise
Darras, Tom
Urvoy, Alban
Furusawa, Akira
Laurat, Julien
contents Optical quantum information processing critically relies on Bell-state measurement, a ubiquitous operation for quantum communication and computing. Its practical realization involves the interference of optical modes and the detection of a single photon in an indistinguishable manner. Yet, in the absence of efficient photon-number resolution capabilities, errors arise from multi-photon components, decreasing the overall process fidelity. Here, we introduce a novel hybrid detection scheme for Bell-state measurement, leveraging both on-off single-photon detection and quadrature conditioning via homodyne detection. We derive explicit fidelities for quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping processes employing this strategy, demonstrating its efficacy. We also compare with photon-number resolving detectors and find a strong advantage of the hybrid scheme in a wide range of parameters. This work provides a new tool for linear optics schemes, with applications to quantum state engineering and quantum interconnects.
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spellingShingle A Hybrid Approach to Mitigate Errors in Linear Photonic Bell-State Measurement for Quantum Interconnects
Asenbeck, Beate E.
Kawasaki, Akito
Boyer, Ambroise
Darras, Tom
Urvoy, Alban
Furusawa, Akira
Laurat, Julien
Quantum Physics
Optical quantum information processing critically relies on Bell-state measurement, a ubiquitous operation for quantum communication and computing. Its practical realization involves the interference of optical modes and the detection of a single photon in an indistinguishable manner. Yet, in the absence of efficient photon-number resolution capabilities, errors arise from multi-photon components, decreasing the overall process fidelity. Here, we introduce a novel hybrid detection scheme for Bell-state measurement, leveraging both on-off single-photon detection and quadrature conditioning via homodyne detection. We derive explicit fidelities for quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping processes employing this strategy, demonstrating its efficacy. We also compare with photon-number resolving detectors and find a strong advantage of the hybrid scheme in a wide range of parameters. This work provides a new tool for linear optics schemes, with applications to quantum state engineering and quantum interconnects.
title A Hybrid Approach to Mitigate Errors in Linear Photonic Bell-State Measurement for Quantum Interconnects
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10331