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Long-Distance High-Fidelity Teleportation Using Singlet States
A quantum communication system is proposed that uses polarization-entangled
photons and trapped-atom quantum memories. This system is capable of
long-distance, high-fidelity teleportation, and long-duration quantum storage.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Computational Ghost Imaging
Ghost-imaging experiments correlate the outputs from two photodetectors: a
high spatial-resolution (scanning pinhole or CCD camera) detector that measures
a field which has not interacted with the object to be imaged, and a bucket
(single-pixel) detector that collects a field that has interacted with the
object. We describe a computational ghost-imaging arrangement that uses only a
single-pixel detector. This configuration affords background-free imagery in
the narrowband limit and a 3D sectioning capability. It clearly indicates the
classical nature of ghost-image formation.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Going through a quantum phase
Phase measurements on a single-mode radiation field are examined from a system-theoretic viewpoint. Quantum estimation theory is used to establish the primacy of the Susskind-Glogower (SG) phase operator; its phase eigenkets generate the probability operator measure (POM) for maximum likelihood phase estimation. A commuting observables description for the SG-POM on a signal x apparatus state space is derived. It is analogous to the signal-band x image-band formulation for optical heterodyne detection. Because heterodyning realizes the annihilation operator POM, this analogy may help realize the SG-POM. The wave function representation associated with the SG POM is then used to prove the duality between the phase measurement and the number operator measurement, from which a number-phase uncertainty principle is obtained, via Fourier theory, without recourse to linearization. Fourier theory is also employed to establish the principle of number-ket causality, leading to a Paley-Wiener condition that must be satisfied by the phase-measurement probability density function (PDF) for a single-mode field in an arbitrary quantum state. Finally, a two-mode phase measurement is shown to afford phase-conjugate quantum communication at zero error probability with finite average photon number. Application of this construct to interferometric precision measurements is briefly discussed
Multiple-Access Bosonic Communications
The maximum rates for reliably transmitting classical information over
Bosonic multiple-access channels (MACs) are derived when the transmitters are
restricted to coherent-state encodings. Inner and outer bounds for the ultimate
capacity region of the Bosonic MAC are also presented. It is shown that the
sum-rate upper bound is achievable with a coherent-state encoding and that the
entire region is asymptotically achievable in the limit of large mean input
photon numbers.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, corrected two figures, accepted for publication
in Phys. Rev.
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