Efficient recycling strategies for preparing large Fock states from single-photon sources: Applications to quantum metrology

Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Physical Review A, 2016, 94 (1)
Issue Date:
2016-07-27
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© 2016 American Physical Society. Fock states are a fundamental resource for many quantum technologies such as quantum metrology. While much progress has been made in single-photon source technologies, preparing Fock states with a large photon number remains challenging. We present and analyze a bootstrapped approach for nondeterministically preparing large photon-number Fock states by iteratively fusing smaller Fock states on a beamsplitter. We show that by employing state recycling we are able to exponentially improve the preparation rate over conventional schemes, allowing the efficient preparation of large Fock states. The scheme requires single-photon sources, beamsplitters, number-resolved photodetectors, fast-feedforward, and an optical quantum memory.
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