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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Reference frames in astronomical interferometry

Yunkai Wang, Yujie Zhang, Virginia O. Lorenz

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We connect the reference frame problem in astronomical interferometry to the concept of decoherence-free subspaces in quantum information. Inspired by this connection, a new scheme that does not rely on reference frame is proposed.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.ff4a.4

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