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IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Demonstration of nonorthogonal multi-state discrimination below the standard quantum limit

F. E. Becerra, Jingyun Fan, G. Baumgartner, Goldhar, Jon T. Kosloski, Alan L. Migdall

Published Jul 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the discrimination of four nonorthogonal states below the standard quantum limit (SQL) for a wide range of input powers, and achieving error probabilities four times lower than the SQL.
DOI
10.1109/phosst.2013.6614522

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