Playing a quantum game on polarization vortices
Quantum Physics
2013-01-24 v1 Optics
Abstract
The quantum mechanical approach to the well known prisoners dilemma, one of the basic examples to illustrate the concepts of Game Theory, is implemented with a classical optical resource, nonquantum entanglement between spin and orbital degrees of freedom of laser modes. The concept of entanglement is crucial in the quantum version of the game, which brings novel features with a richer universe of strategies. As we show, this richness can be achieved in a quite unexpected context, namely that of paraxial spin-orbit modes in classical optics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1301.5537,
title = {Playing a quantum game on polarization vortices},
author = {A. R. C. Pinheiro and C. E. R. Souza and D. P. Caetano and J. A. O. Huguenin and A. G. M. Schmidt and A. Z. Khoury},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5537},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figure captions, 4 figures