Teleportation of a cat-state via attenuated quantum channel using only threshold detectors

An experimental scheme is proposed for faithful teleportation of a unknown optical cat-state via attenuated quantum channel due to energy loss or photon absorption during the process of entanglement sharing. The scheme is probabilistic, yet conclusive, and the effective classical communication costs just Log₂3 bits, instead of five bits which are necessary for full record of the measurement outcome. The scheme uses only threshold (i.e., yes/no) detectors so that exact photon counting is not needed. However, it requires application of a nonlinear element called cross-phase modulator. Feasibility of the scheme is also discussed with respect to EIT-based modern techniques.     

Novel Quantum Secret Sharing and Controlled Communication Schemes Based on Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations

Employing quantum registers, we first proposed a novel （2, 3） quantum threshold scheme based on Einstein- Podolsky Rosen （EPR） correlations in this letter. Motivated by the present threshold scheme, we also propose a controlled communication scheme to transmit the secret message with a controller. In the communication protocol, the encoded quantum message carried by particles sequence, is transmitted by legitimate communicators.     

Quantum teleportation of an arbitrary two-mode coherent state using only linear optics elements

We propose a linear optics scheme to teleport an arbitrary two-mode coherent state. The devices used are beam-splitters, phase-shifters and ideal photo-detectors capable of distinguishing between even and odd photon numbers. The scheme achieves faithful teleportation with a probability of 1/4. However, with additional use of an appropriate displacement operator, the teleported state can always be made near-faithful.     

A novel nondeterministic scheme for a nondestructive two-qubit controlled phase gate with linear optics

A linear optical scheme for realizing the nondeterministic two-qubit quantum controlled phase gate is presented. The proposed setup involves a pair of product states, polarizing beam splitters, phase shifters and photon number resolving detectors. The omission of entangled ancilla input and additional single-qubit operations significantly reduces the complexity of this gate. This can be well implemented in experiment.     

A linear optical protocol of random quantum key distribution by using polarization entangled photons

Utilized polarization entangled photons, a linear optical protocol for generating random quantum key distribution (QKD) is proposed, which is made up of EPR-source, linear optical elements, and conventional photon detectors. It is shown that total efficiency of QKD η=100% in theory.     

Practical scheme for non-postselection entanglement concentration using linear optical elements

We report a practical non-postselection entanglement concentration scheme in which a maximally entangled Bell-state photon pair is produced from two pairs of partially (or non-maximally) entangled photons. Since this scheme is built only upon linear optical elements and does not require photon-number resolving detectors, it has immediate applications in experimental implementations of various quantum information protocols which require two-photon Bell-states.     

Postponement of dark-count effects in practical quantum key-distribution by two-way post-processing

The influence of imperfections on achievable secret-key generation rates of quantum key distribution protocols is investigated. As examples of relevant imperfections, we consider tagging of Alice's qubits and dark counts at Bob's detectors, while we focus on a powerful eavesdropping strategy which takes full advantage of tagged signals. It is demonstrated that error correction and privacy amplification based on a combination of a two-way classical communication protocol and asymmetric Calderbank-Shor-Steane codes may significantly postpone the disastrous influence of dark counts. As a result, the distances are increased considerably over which a secret key can be distributed in optical fibres reliably. Results are presented for the four-state, the six-state, and the decoy-state protocols.     

Continuous-Variable Quantum Teleportation of Entangled Coherent States

We propose a quantum teleportation scheme for tripartite entangled coherent state （ECS） with continuous variable. Our scheme is feasible and economical in the sense that we need only linear optical devices such as beam splitters, phase shifters and photon detectors and employ three bipartite maximally ECSs as quantum channels. We also generalize the tripartite scheme into multipartite ease and calculate the minimum average fidelity for the schemes in tripartite and multipartite cases.     

Evaluation of polarization entanglement generated by pulsed spontaneous parametric down-conversion with multi-pairs using four single-photon detectors for quantum state tomography

Quantum state tomography (QST) is widely used to evaluate entanglement generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Two-fold coincidence counts for 16 different configurations have been measured using single-photon detectors to estimate the fidelity (i.e., the probability overlap between ideal and real states) from the reconstructed density matrix. However, multi-pair emission events degrade the fidelity. Here, we numerically analyze pulse-pumped polarization-entangled photon pairs for single-photon detectors that can or cannot count the number of incident photons to estimate the fidelity given by QST. Threshold single-photon detectors are desirable for QST from a practical point of view. Our analysis suggests that using four threshold single-photon detectors for two-fold coincidence measurements offers almost the same fidelity as that given by four photon-number-resolving single-photon detectors. The fidelity estimated by QST becomes poor and loss independent when two threshold single-photon detectors are used.     

Remote Preparation of Photon Polarization States within a Network

We propose a new linear optical protocol for remote state preparation （RSP） between two parties under control of a number of controllers in terms of optical elements. The realization of this protocol is appealing due to the fact that the quantum state of light is robust against the decoherence, and photons are ideal carriers for transmitting quantum information over long distances.     

Evaluation of polarization entanglement generated by spontaneous parametric downconversion using photon number counting

Spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) is widely used to generate entangled photon pairs; however, multi-pair emissions degrade the quality of the entanglement. We numerically evaluate polarization-entangled photon pairs created by SPDC. The effects of multi-pair emission events on the visibility of two-photon interference and on the fidelity (the probability overlap for ideal and real states) are analyzed using single-photon detectors that can count the number of incoming photons and discard multiphoton events. Compared with conventional threshold single-photon detectors, photon-number resolving single-photon detectors have higher fidelity for the same or lower visibility.     

Quantum phase gate in decoherence-free subspace with cavity QED system

We demonstrate how to perform quantum phase gate with cavity QED system in decoherence-free subspace by using only linear optics elements and photon detectors. The qubits are encoded in the singlet state of the atoms in cavities among spatially separated nodes, and the quantum interference of polarized photons decayed from the optical cavities is used to realized the desired quantum operation among distant nodes. In comparison with previous schemes, the distinct advantage is that the gate fidelity could not only resist collective noises, but also immune from atomic spontaneous emission, cavity decay, and imperfection of the photodetectors. We also discuss the experimental feasibility of our scheme.     

A fault-tolerant one-way quantum computer

We describe a fault-tolerant one-way quantum computer on cluster states in three dimensions. The presented scheme uses methods of topological error correction resulting from a link between cluster states and surface codes. The error threshold is 1.4% for local depolarizing error and 0.11% for each source in an error model with preparation-, gate-, storage-, and measurement errors.     

Teleportation of the three-level three-particle entangled state and classical communication cost

We propose a scheme to probabilistically teleport an unknown three-level three-particle entangled state. The quantum channel is composed of a partial entangled three-level two-particle state and a partial entangled three-level three-particle state. We calculate the successful total probability and the classical communication cost required in the ideal probabilistic teleportation process, respectively. It is shown that an unknown three-level three-particle entangled state can be teleported using fewer entangled particles and lesser classical communication cost than Bennett et al.’s original protocol.     

Closing the detection loophole in the Bell test for local models based upon three hidden variables

Locality and fair sampling are proved to be contradictory assumptions in hidden variable models of the Bell test that are based upon a 3-dimensional sample space. This result makes the class of 3-dimensional hidden variable models incompatible with quantum mechanics in the ideal case, independently of detection efficiencies.     

Purity and entanglement of two-photon polarization states generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion

We elucidate the dependence of purity and entanglement of two-photon states generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion on the parameters of the source, such as crystal length, pump beam divergence, frequency bandwidth, and detectors angular aperture. The effect of crystal anisotropy is taken into account. Numerical simulations are presented for two types of commonly used source configurations.     

An all-silicon linear chain NMR quantum computer

An updated version of our all-silicon quantum computing scheme [T.D. Ladd, J.R. Goldman, F. Yamaguchi, Y. Yamamoto, E. Abe, K.M. Itoh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 017901. [3]] and the experimental progress towards its realization are discussed. We emphasize the importance of revisiting a wide range of isotope effects which have been explored over the past several decades for the construction of solid-state silicon quantum computers. Using RF decoupling techniques [T.D. Ladd, D. Maryenko, Y. Yamamoto, E. Abe, K.M. Itoh, Phys. Rev. B. 71 (2005) 014401] phase decoherence times T₂=25 s of ²⁹Si nuclear spins in single-crystal Si have been obtained at room temperature. We show that a linear chain of ²⁹Si stable isotopes with nuclear spin I=1/2 embedded in a spin free ²⁸Si stable isotope matrix can form an ideal building block for solid-state quantum information processors, especially, in the form of a quantum memory which requires a large number of operations within T₂ for the continuous error correction.     

A method for demonstrating violation of local realism with a two-photon downconverter without use of Bell inequalities

We show that the recent proposal by Hardy and Jordan for a test of local realism without the use of Bell inequalities can be implemented in two-photon coincidence measurements with linear polarizers, when the photon pairs are produced by parametric downconversion. If the probabilities measured with real detectors are proportional to the corresponding probabilities determined with ideal detectors, this method does not depend on the use of detectors with high or even known quantum efficiencies.Dedicated to H. Walther on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

One-Step Implementation of Single Spin Measurement in Spin Star Network

We present an efficient one-step scheme for a single spin measurement based on nuclear magnetic resonance （NMR） techniques. This scheme considerably reduces the time of operation using a spin star network where a target spin and an ancillary spin are coupled to a ring of N spins. As opposed to the proposal in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 （2006） 100501] using a cubic lattice crystal to achieve a cubic speedup, the distinct advantage of this scheme is that under ideal conditions it requires the application of only one step to create a system of N correlated spins. In the process of single spin measurement, the total macroscopic magnetization, the individual magnetization and the transfer fidelity are calculated analytically as simple cosine functions of time and the amplitude of irradiation.     

Comment on: “Dense coding and teleportation with one-dimensional cluster states” [Phys. Lett. A 364 (2007) 7]

The schemes on quantum dense coding and teleportation [Phys. Lett. A 364 (2007) 7] are revisited. By reformulizing one-dimensional n-qubit cluster states, we decompose the necessary multi-qubit collective unitary operation into a sequence of single-qubit Hadamard (H) and two-qubit controlled-not (C) operations. Our reduction makes the schemes feasible today.