Tensor network states in time-bin quantum optics
Quantum Physics
2018-06-20 v2
Abstract
The current shift in the quantum optics community towards large-size experiments -- with many modes and photons -- necessitates new classical simulation techniques that go beyond the usual phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. To address this pressing demand we formulate linear quantum optics in the language of tensor network states. As a toy model, we extensively analyze the quantum and classical correlations of time-bin interference in a single fiber loop. We then generalize our results to more complex time-bin quantum setups and identify different classes of architectures for high-complexity and low-overhead boson sampling experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1712.09869,
title = {Tensor network states in time-bin quantum optics},
author = {Michael Lubasch and Antonio A. Valido and Jelmer J. Renema and W. Steven Kolthammer and Dieter Jaksch and Myungshik S. Kim and Ian Walmsley and Raúl García-Patrón},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09869},
year = {2018}
}