Experimental demonstration of a receiver beating the standard quantum limit for multiple nonorthogonal state discrimination

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147-152

  Becerra, F E ^a   Fan, J ^a   Baumgartner, G ^b   Goldhar, J ^c   Kosloski, J T ^b   Migdall, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL COMMUNICATION; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; ERROR PROBABILITIES; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; NON-ORTHOGONAL QUANTUM STATE; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; STANDARD QUANTUM LIMITS; STATE DISCRIMINATION;

OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873348246     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.316     Document Type: Article

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