Abstract
Abstract
We consider realistic photodetection in a generalization of the Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment to the multimode case. The basic layout of this experiment underlies boson sampling—a promising model of nonuniversal quantum computations. Peculiarities of photocounting probabilities in such an experiment witness important nonclassical properties of electromagnetic field related to indistinguishability of boson particles. In practice, these probabilities are changed from their theoretical values due to the imperfect ability of realistic detectors to distinguish numbers of bunched photons. We derive analytical expressions for photocounting distributions in the generalized Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment for the case of realistic photon-number resolving (PNR) detectors. It is shown that probabilities of properly postselected events are proportional to probabilities obtained for perfect PNR detectors. Our results are illustrated with examples of arrays of on/off detectors and detectors affected by a finite dead time.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Ukraine
Department of Physics and Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Mathematical Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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3 articles.
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