Experimental minimum-error quantum-state discrimination in high dimensions
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Quantum mechanics forbids perfect discrimination among nonorthogonal states through a single shot measurement. To optimize this task, many strategies were devised that later became fundamental tools for quantum information processing. Here, we address the pioneering minimum-error (ME) measurement and give the first experimental demonstration of its application for discriminating nonorthogonal states in high dimensions. Our scheme is designed to distinguish symmetric pure states encoded in the transverse spatial modes of an optical field; the optimal measurement is performed by a projection onto the Fourier transform basis of these modes. For dimensions ranging from 𝐷=2 to 𝐷=21 and nearly 14 000 states tested, the deviations of the experimental results from the theoretical values range from 0.3% to 3.6% (getting below 2% for the vast majority), thus showing the excellent performance of our scheme. This ME measurement is a building block for high-dimensional implementations of many quantum communication protocols, including probabilistic state discrimination, dense coding with nonmaximal entanglement, and cryptographic schemes.
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Comunicação quântica, Informação quântica, Tomografia quântica
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Optical tests of quantum theory, Quantum communication, Quantum information processing, Quantum measurements, Quantum metrology, Quantum state engineering, Quantum tomography
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https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.100501