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The role of auxiliary states in state discrimination with linear optical evices

Angelo CarolloG. Massimo Palma

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PhysicsSet (abstract data type)Quantum PhysicsPhotonTransformation (function)Physics::OpticsFOS: Physical sciencesStatistical physicsState (functional analysis)Photon states quantum opticsQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Optical linear elementAtomic and Molecular Physics and Optics

description

The role of auxiliary photons in the problem of identifying a state secretly chosen from a given set of L-photon states is analyzed. It is shown that auxiliary photons do not increase the ability to discriminate such states by means of a global measurement using only optical linear elements, conditional transformation and auxiliary photons.

https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0106041