Experimental realization of mmaximum confidence quantum state discrimination for the extraction of quantum information

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Mosley, Peter J ^a   Croke, Sarah ^b,c   Walmsley, Ian A ^a   Barnett, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION;

QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM STATE DISCRIMINATION; QUBIT STATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33750897003     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.193601     Document Type: Article

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