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arXiv:2108.05919 · Physical Review Applied

Quantum Tomography of Entangled Spin-Multiphoton States

Dan Cogan, Giora Peniakov, Oded Kenneth, Yaroslav Don, D. Gershoni

Published Aug 19, 2022• 2 citations
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Abstract

We present a method for quantum tomography of multiqubit states. We apply the method to spin-multiphoton states, which we generate using a quantum dot based device. Periodic excitation of a quantum dot confined spin deterministically generates strings of entangled photons in a cluster state, threefold faster than previously demonstrated. Our tomography method uses time-resolved polarization-sensitive multiphoton correlation measurements to measure both the polarization of the confined spin and that of the emitted photons. We develop an edge-sensitive gradient-descent algorithm and apply it to the acquired data to map the periodic physical process that generates the cluster state. We utilize our tomographic method to optimize our quantum dot based device and show that the enhanced generation rate increases the entanglement robustness of the generated multiqubit state.

DOI
10.1103/physrevapplied.18.024055

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