• DocumentCode
    1691981
  • Title

    Improving a lossy photon detector with an imperfect CNOT gate

  • Author

    Brown, K.L. ; Kim, M.B. ; Richardson, Chuck ; Dowling

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We improve a lossy detector by using a CNOT gate to copy the classical information from the state into an ancilla qubit. This scheme works even when the CNOT gate introduces errors into the circuit.
  • Keywords
    photodetectors; quantum gates; quantum optics; CNOT gate; ancilla qubit; classical information; lossy photon detector; Adaptive optics; Detectors; Logic gates; Loss measurement; Measurement uncertainty; Optical detectors; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6327118