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Violating Bell inequalities with entangled optical frequency combs and multi-pixel homodyne detection

Quantum Physics 2018-12-12 v1

Abstract

We have theoretically investigated the possibility of using any of several continuous-variable Bell-type inequalities - for which the dichotomic measurements are achieved with coarse-grained quadrature (homodyne) measurements - in a multi-party configuration where each participant is given a section, in the frequency domain, of the output of an optical parametric oscillator which has been synchronously-pumped with a frequency comb. Such light sources are undergoing intense study due to their novel properties, including the potential for production of light entangled in many hundreds of physical modes - a critical component for many proposals in optical or hybrid-optical quantum computation proposals. The situation we study notably uses only highly-efficient optical homodyne detection, meaning that in such systems the fair-sampling loophole would be relatively easy to avoid.

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@article{arxiv.1805.06059,
  title  = {Violating Bell inequalities with entangled optical frequency combs and multi-pixel homodyne detection},
  author = {William N. Plick and Francesco Arzani and Nicolas Treps and Eleni Diamanti and Damian Markham},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.06059},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

11 Pages, 5 Figures, Link to computer code to be added later