Applications of single-photon two-qubit quantum logic to the quantum information science

In this thesis, I describe demonstration of various quantum information processing tasks using single-photon two-qubit (SPTQ) quantum logic. As an initial state of those tasks, I used various entangled photon pairs, and I describe development of a polarization entangled photon pair source based on a collinear spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) process within a bidirectionally pumped periodically-poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) crystal embedded in a polarization Sagnac interferometer and generation of hyper-entangled photon pairs that are simultaneously entangled in the polarization and momentum degrees of freedom. I also introduce deterministic quantum gates based on SPTQ quantum logic where the polarization and momentum degrees of freedom in a single photon are used as two qubits. By applying SPTQ quantum logic to different entangled states, I demonstrate several quantum information tasks such as transferring entanglement from the momentum qubits to the polarization qubits, SPTQ-based complete polarization Bell state measurements, entanglement distillation (Schmidt projection), and a physical simulation of the entangling-probe attack on the Bennett Brassard 1984 (BB84) quantum key distribution (QKD).

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Kim, Taehyun

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Franco N.C. Wong and Vladan Vuletic.

• Physics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45447

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/45447