Multidimensional quantum information based on single-photon temporal wavepackets

Alex Hayat; Xingxing Xing; Amir Feizpour; Aephraim M. Steinberg

doi:10.1364/OE.20.029174

Multidimensional quantum information based on single-photon temporal wavepackets

Quantum Physics 2013-01-03 v2

Authors: Alex Hayat , Xingxing Xing , Amir Feizpour , Aephraim M. Steinberg

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Abstract

We propose a multidimensional quantum information encoding approach based on temporal modulation of single photons, where the Hilbert space can be spanned by an in-principle infinite set of orthonormal temporal profiles. We analyze two specific realizations of such modulation schemes, and show that error rate per symbol can be smaller than 1% for practical implementations. Temporal modulation may enable multidimensional quantum communication over the existing fiber optical infrastructure, as well as provide an avenue for probing high-dimensional entanglement approaching the continuous limit.

Keywords

quantum photonics spatiotemporal dynamics single-photon sources

Cite

@article{arxiv.1212.1483,
  title  = {Multidimensional quantum information based on single-photon temporal wavepackets},
  author = {Alex Hayat and Xingxing Xing and Amir Feizpour and Aephraim M. Steinberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1483},
  year   = {2013}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures

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