Scalable on-chip quantum state tomography

Titchener, James; Gräfe, Markus; Heilmann, René; Solntsev, Alexander S.; Szameit, Alexander; Sukhorukov, Andrey A.

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Scalable on-chip quantum state tomography

Date

2016

Authors

Titchener, James

Gräfe, Markus

Heilmann, René

Solntsev, Alexander S.

Szameit, Alexander

Sukhorukov, Andrey A.

Abstract

We formulate a method of quantum tomography that scales linearly with the number of photons and involves only one optical transformation. We demonstrate it experimentally for twophoton entangled states using a special photonic chip.