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Which multiphoton states are related via linear optics?

Quantum Physics 2014-06-25 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We investigate which pure states of nn photons in dd modes can be transformed into each other via linear optics, without post-selection. In other words, we study the local unitary (LU) equivalence classes of symmetric many-qudit states. Writing our state as fΩf^\dagger|\Omega\rangle, with ff^\dagger a homogeneous polynomial in the mode creation operators, we propose two sets of LU-invariants: (a) spectral invariants, which are the eigenvalues of the operator ffff^\dagger, and (b) moments, each given by the norm of the symmetric component of a tensor power of the initial state, which can be computed as vacuum expectation values of fk(f)kf^k(f^\dagger)^k. We provide scheme for experimental measurement of the later, as related to the post-selection probability of creating state fkΩf^{\dagger k}|\Omega\rangle from kk copies of fΩf^{\dagger}|\Omega\rangle.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3069,
  title  = {Which multiphoton states are related via linear optics?},
  author = {Piotr Migdał and Javier Rodríguez-Laguna and Michał Oszmaniec and Maciej Lewenstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3069},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures; minor changes (3 new citations, a remark on fermionic systems)

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