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Conditioned Unitary Transformation on biphotons

G. Brida, M. Chekhova, M. Genovese, M. Gramegna, L. Krivitsky, S. Kulik

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0312211

Abstract

A conditioned unitary transformation (90o polarization rotation) is performed at single-photon level. The transformation is realized by rotating polarization for one of the photons of a polarization-entangled biphoton state (signal photon) by means of a Pockel's cell triggered by the detection of the other (idler) photon after polarization selection. As a result, polarization degree for the signal beam changes from zero to the value given by the idler detector quantum efficiency. This result is relevant to practical realization of various quantum information schemes and can be used for developing a new method of absolute quantum efficiency calibration.

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