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Teleporting photonic qudits using multimode quantum scissors

Quantum Physics 2014-01-03 v2 Optics

Abstract

Teleportation plays an important role in the communication of quantum information between the nodes of a quantum network and is viewed as an essential ingredient for long-distance Quantum Cryptography. We describe a method to teleport the quantum information carried by a photon in a superposition of a number dd of light modes (a "qudit") by the help of dd additional photons based on transcription. A qudit encoded into a single excitation of dd light modes (in our case Laguerre-Gauss modes which carry orbital angular momentum) is transcribed to dd single-rail photonic qubits, which are spatially separated. Each single-rail qubit consists of a superposition of vacuum and a single photon in each one of the modes. After successful teleportation of each of the dd single-rail qubits by means of "quantum scissors" they are converted back into a qudit carried by a single photon which completes the teleportation scheme.

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@article{arxiv.1306.0427,
  title  = {Teleporting photonic qudits using multimode quantum scissors},
  author = {Sandeep K Goyal and Thomas Konrad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0427},
  year   = {2014}
}

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