Data di Pubblicazione:
2012
Citazione:
Ancilla-assisted calibration of a measuring apparatus / G. Brida, L. Ciavarella, I. P. Degiovanni, M. Genovese, A. Migdall, M. G. Mingolla, M. Paris, F. Piacentini, S. V. Polyakov. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 108:25(2012), pp. 253601.253601.1-253601.253601.5.
Abstract:
A quantum measurement can be described by a set of matrices, one for each possible outcome, which represents the positive operator-valued measure (POVM) of the sensor. Efficient protocols of POVM extraction for arbitrary sensors are required. We present the first experimental POVM reconstruction that takes explicit advantage of a quantum resource, i.e., nonclassical correlations with an ancillary state. A POVM of a photon-number-resolving detector is reconstructed by using strong quantum correlations of twin beams generated by parametric down-conversion. Our reconstruction method is more statistically robust than POVM reconstruction methods that use classical input states.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
G. Brida, L. Ciavarella, I. P. Degiovanni, M. Genovese, A. Migdall, M. G. Mingolla, M. Paris, F. Piacentini, S. V. Polyakov
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