Year: 2002
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Under a multidisciplinary university research initiative (MURI) program, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northwestern University (NU) are developing a long-distance, high-fidelity quantum teleportation system.This system uses a novel ultrabright source of entangled photon pairs and trapped-atom quantum memories.This thesis will investigate the potential teleportation errors involved in the MIT/NU system.A single-photon, Bell-diagonal error model is developed that allows us to restrict possible errors to just four distinct events.The effects of these errors on teleportation, as well as their probabilities of occurrence, are determined.Techniques drawn from quantum error correcting codes and entanglement purification protocols are investigated as means for reducing teleportation errors in the MIT/NU architecture.Finally we apply existing bounds on the achievable rate of reliable quantum communication to the MIT/NU system.
Author: Aung, Joe, 1978-
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2224074772