Quasiprobability methods for multimode conditional optical gates

G. J. Milburn

doi:10.1364/JOSAB.24.000167

Quasiprobability methods for multimode conditional optical gates

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Authors: G. J. Milburn

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Abstract

We present a method for computing the action of conditional linear optical transformations, conditioned on photon counting, for arbitrary signal states. The method is based on the Q-function, a quasi probability distribution for anti normally ordered moments. We treat an arbitrary number of signal and ancilla modes. The ancilla modes are prepared in an arbitrary product number state. We construct the conditional, non unitary, signal transformations for an arbitrary photon number count on each of the ancilla modes.

Keywords

quantum optics

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0612040,
  title  = {Quasiprobability methods for multimode conditional optical gates},
  author = {G. J. Milburn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0612040},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures. JOSA B Special Issue "Optical Quantum Information Science"

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