Preserving photon qubits in an unknown quantum state with Knill dynamical decoupling: towards an all optical quantum memory

Manish K. Gupta; Erik J. Navarro; Todd A. Moulder; Jason D. Mueller; Ashkan Balouchi; Katherine L. Brown; Hwang Lee; Jonathan P. Dowling

doi:10.1117/12.2084318

4 March 2015 Preserving photon qubits in an unknown quantum state with Knill dynamical decoupling: towards an all optical quantum memory

Manish K. Gupta, Erik J. Navarro, Todd A. Moulder, Jason D. Mueller, Ashkan Balouchi, Katherine L. Brown, Hwang Lee, Jonathan P. Dowling

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Proceedings Volume 9377, Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication VIII; 93770K (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084318
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The implementation of polarization-based quantum communication is limited by signal loss and decoherence caused by the birefringence of a single-mode fiber. We investigate the Knill dynamical decoupling scheme, implemented using half-wave plates, to minimize decoherence and show that a fidelity greater than 99% can be achieved in absence of rotation error and fidelity greater than 96% can be achieved in presence of rotation error. Such a scheme can be used to preserve any quantum state with high fidelity and has potential application for constructing all optical quantum delay line, quantum memory, and quantum repeater.

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Manish K. Gupta, Erik J. Navarro, Todd A. Moulder, Jason D. Mueller, Ashkan Balouchi, Katherine L. Brown, Hwang Lee, and Jonathan P. Dowling "Preserving photon qubits in an unknown quantum state with Knill dynamical decoupling: towards an all optical quantum memory", Proc. SPIE 9377, Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication VIII, 93770K (4 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084318

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