Which multiphoton states are related via linear optics?
Abstract
We investigate which pure states of photons in 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 , with 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 , 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 . We provide scheme for experimental measurement of the later, as related to the post-selection probability of creating state from copies of .
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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)