Work

Generation of universal linear optics by any beam splitter

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Any beamsplitter that acts nontrivially on two modes can be used to generate a dense set of all unitary transformations on single photons in three or more modes, thereby making tunable beam splitters nonessential in principle for universal optical transformations.

Source: Physical Review A

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.89.062316

Authors: Adam Bouland, Scott Aaronson

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Quantum Information and Cryptography

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: Graduate Research Fellowship Program, CAREER: Efficient Computation in the Physical World, Emerging Frontiers of Science of Information