TY - GEN
T1 - A realizable receiver for discriminating arbitrary coherent states near the quantum limit
AU - Nair, Ranjith
AU - Guha, Saikat
AU - Tan, Si Hui
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Discriminating coherent states of light is an important instance of quantum state discrimination that is central to all applications of laser light. We obtain the ultimate quantum limit on the error probability exponent for discriminating among any M multimode coherent-state signals via the recently developed theory of the quantum Chernoff exponent in M-ary multi-copy state discrimination. A receiver called the Sequential Waveform Nulling (SWN) receiver is proposed for discriminating an arbitrary coherent-state ensemble using only auxiliary coherent-state fields, beam splitters, and non-number-resolving single photon detectors. An explicit error probability analysis of the SWN receiver is used to show that it achieves the quantum limit on the error probability exponent, which is shown to be a factor of four greater than the error probability exponent of an ideal heterodyne-detection receiver on the same ensemble. Apart from being of fundamental interest, these results are relevant to communication, sensing, imaging, and quantum information processing systems that use laser light.
AB - Discriminating coherent states of light is an important instance of quantum state discrimination that is central to all applications of laser light. We obtain the ultimate quantum limit on the error probability exponent for discriminating among any M multimode coherent-state signals via the recently developed theory of the quantum Chernoff exponent in M-ary multi-copy state discrimination. A receiver called the Sequential Waveform Nulling (SWN) receiver is proposed for discriminating an arbitrary coherent-state ensemble using only auxiliary coherent-state fields, beam splitters, and non-number-resolving single photon detectors. An explicit error probability analysis of the SWN receiver is used to show that it achieves the quantum limit on the error probability exponent, which is shown to be a factor of four greater than the error probability exponent of an ideal heterodyne-detection receiver on the same ensemble. Apart from being of fundamental interest, these results are relevant to communication, sensing, imaging, and quantum information processing systems that use laser light.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620322
DO - 10.1109/ISIT.2013.6620322
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84890363580
SN - 9781479904464
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
SP - 729
EP - 733
BT - 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2013
Y2 - 7 July 2013 through 12 July 2013
ER -