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| author | Schadow, Riko Spier, Naomi Hoven, Stefan N. van den Anguita, Malaquias Correa Braamhaar, Redlef B. G. Marzban, Sara Eisert, Jens Renema, Jelmer J. Walk, Nathan |
| author_facet | Schadow, Riko Spier, Naomi Hoven, Stefan N. van den Anguita, Malaquias Correa Braamhaar, Redlef B. G. Marzban, Sara Eisert, Jens Renema, Jelmer J. Walk, Nathan |
| contents | Certification is important to guarantee the correct functioning of quantum devices. A key certification task is verifying that a device has produced a desired output state. In this work, we study this task in the context of photonic platforms, where single photons are propagated through linear optical interferometers to create large, entangled resource states for metrology, communication, quantum advantage demonstrations and for so-called linear optical quantum computing (LOQC). This setting derives its computational power from the indistinguishability of the photons, i.e., their relative overlap. Therefore, standard fidelity witnesses developed for distinguishable particles (including qubits) do not apply directly, because they merely certify the closeness to some fixed target state. We introduce a measure of fidelity suitable for this setting and show several different ways to witness it, based on earlier proposals for measuring genuine multi-photon indistinguishability. We argue that a witness based upon the discrete Fourier transform is an optimal choice. We experimentally implement this witness and certify the fidelity of several multi-photon states. |
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| spellingShingle | Certification of linear optical quantum state preparation Schadow, Riko Spier, Naomi Hoven, Stefan N. van den Anguita, Malaquias Correa Braamhaar, Redlef B. G. Marzban, Sara Eisert, Jens Renema, Jelmer J. Walk, Nathan Quantum Physics Certification is important to guarantee the correct functioning of quantum devices. A key certification task is verifying that a device has produced a desired output state. In this work, we study this task in the context of photonic platforms, where single photons are propagated through linear optical interferometers to create large, entangled resource states for metrology, communication, quantum advantage demonstrations and for so-called linear optical quantum computing (LOQC). This setting derives its computational power from the indistinguishability of the photons, i.e., their relative overlap. Therefore, standard fidelity witnesses developed for distinguishable particles (including qubits) do not apply directly, because they merely certify the closeness to some fixed target state. We introduce a measure of fidelity suitable for this setting and show several different ways to witness it, based on earlier proposals for measuring genuine multi-photon indistinguishability. We argue that a witness based upon the discrete Fourier transform is an optimal choice. We experimentally implement this witness and certify the fidelity of several multi-photon states. |
| title | Certification of linear optical quantum state preparation |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12269 |