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Complementary properties of multiphoton quantum states in linear optics networks

Quantum Physics 2020-10-27 v2

Abstract

We have developed a theory for accessing quantum coherences in mutually unbiased bases associated with generalized Pauli operators in multiphoton multimode linear optics networks (LONs). We show a way to construct complementary Pauli measurements in multiphoton LONs and establish a theory for evaluation of their photonic measurement statistics without dealing with the computational complexity of Boson samplings. This theory extends characterization of complementary properties in single-photon LONs to multiphoton LONs employing convex-roof extension. It allows us to detect quantum properties such as entanglement using complementary Pauli measurements, which reveals the physical significance of entanglement between modes in bipartite multiphoton LONs.

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@article{arxiv.2004.13586,
  title  = {Complementary properties of multiphoton quantum states in linear optics networks},
  author = {Jun-Yi Wu and Mio Murao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13586},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

25 pages + list of notations and acronyms + references; 10 figures; published version

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