Quantum Control of the States of Light in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer

Quantum Fest 2016 International Conference on Quantum Phenomena, Quantum Control and Quantum Optics

Blanco-Garcia, Z.^1

Physics Department, Cinvestav, A.P. 14-740, México City

07000, Mexico^1

关键词: Fock state;    Linear combinations;    Non-linear optical;    NOON state;    Quantum beam splitters;    Quantum control;    States of light;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/839/1/012021/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/839/1/012021

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The experiment proposed by Elitzur and Vaidman is modified by replacing the fully absorbing obstacle (the 'bomb') with a non-linear optical medium. In this form the involved Mach-Zehnder interferometer works as a quantum beam splitter that produces NOON states which can be controlled if the input is the appropriate linear combination of two-mode Fock states.