Simple rules for two-photon state preparation with linear optics
Abstract
Entangling photons is a critical challenge for photonic quantum information processing: entanglement is a crucial resource for quantum communication and computation but can only be performed in a probabilistic manner when using linear optics. In this work, we leverage a two-photon state matrix representation to derive necessary and sufficient conditions on two-photon entangling operations with linear optics. We give a characterization of the input photonic states that can be used to prepare arbitrary two-qudit states in d-rail encoding with post-selection. We determine how many auxiliary photons are required to prepare any two-photon state with heralding. In addition, we present a construction for generalized post-selected n-qubit control-rotation gates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.01395,
title = {Simple rules for two-photon state preparation with linear optics},
author = {Grégoire de Gliniasty and Paul Bagourd and Sébastien Draux and Boris Bourdoncle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.01395},
year = {2024}
}
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This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication