Decoherence-Free Quantum Information Processing with Four-Photon Entangled States
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
Decoherence-free states protect quantum information from collective noise, the predominant cause of decoherence in current implementations of quantum communication and computation. Here we demonstrate that spontaneous parametric down-conversion can be used to generate four-photon states which enable the encoding of one qubit in a decoherence-free subspace. The immunity against noise is verified by quantum state tomography of the encoded qubit. We show that particular states of the encoded qubit can be distinguished by local measurements on the four photons only.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0309041,
title = {Decoherence-Free Quantum Information Processing with Four-Photon Entangled States},
author = {Mohamed Bourennane and Manfred Eibl and Sascha Gaertner and Christian Kurtsiefer and Adan Cabello and Harald Weinfurter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0309041},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 eps figures, revtex4