Using supermodels in quantum optics

Quantum Computing using Linear Optics

uantum computers are expected to be able to solve mathematical problems that cannot be solved using conventional computers. Many of these problems are of practical importance, especially in the areas of cryptography and secure communications. APL is developing an optical approach to quantum computing in which the bits, or “qubits,” are represented by single photons. Our approach allows the use ...

Quantum State Reconstruction Using Atom Optics

The development of methods for completely determining the quantum state of an atom or cavity field @1# continues to be an important issue in atomic physics. For example, in the field of quantum optics, schemes have been recently proposed, based on the Stem-Gerlach effect, for completely determining the quantum state of an atom as a way of fully characterizing the quantized electromagnetic field...

Quantum Optics

Hybrid quantum computation in quantum optics

P. van Loock,* W. J. Munro, Kae Nemoto, T. P. Spiller, T. D. Ladd, Samuel L. Braunstein, and G. J. Milburn National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan Optical Quantum Information Theory Group, Institute of Theoretical Physics I and Max-Planck Research Group, Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse ...

Recent Developments in Quantum Optics

he quantum theory of light predicts many interesting effects that may seem counterintuitive or even impossible from a classical point of view. Several effects of this kind have been investigated at the Applied Physics Laboratory, including a new kind of interferometry, the cancellation of dispersion between two distant media, and a new type of phase associated with the electromagnetic field. So...