Experimental demonstration of quantum source coding
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We report an experimental demonstration of Schumacher's quantum noiseless coding theorem. Our experiment employs a sequence of single photons each of which represents three qubits. We initially prepare each photon in one of a set of 8 non-orthogonal codeword states corresponding to the value of a block of three binary letters. We use quantum coding to compress this quantum data into a two-qubit quantum channel and then uncompress the two-qubit channel to restore the original data with a fidelity approaching the theoretical limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0304036,
title = {Experimental demonstration of quantum source coding},
author = {Y. Mitsumori and J. A. Vaccaro and S. M. Barnett and E. Andersson and A. Hasegawa and M. Takeoka and M. Sasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0304036},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures