Physical Review aPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022420
Meng-Wei Chen, Owen Young, M. Schlosshauer, M. Beck
{"title":"Protective measurements of photon polarization using a temporal pointer","authors":"Meng-Wei Chen, Owen Young, M. Schlosshauer, M. Beck","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022420","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally demonstrate protective measurements by weakly coupling the polarization of a single-photon-level field to a measurement pointer that corresponds to the arrival time of the photon. By using an optical loop, we implement a variable, controlled number (1-9) of protection and measurement stages. We demonstrate the measurement of expectation values of photon polarization by measuring arrival times while simultaneously protecting the polarization state. No knowledge of the initial photon state is required or available in our experiment, demonstrating that protective measurements provide a genuine information gain that cannot simply be reduced to a priori information about the protection procedure.","PeriodicalId":48702,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review a","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47648032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Physical Review aPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1103/physreva.108.029902
Scott M. Cohen
{"title":"Erratum: Local approximation for perfect discrimination of quantum states [Phys. Rev. A \u0000107\u0000, 012401 (2023)]","authors":"Scott M. Cohen","doi":"10.1103/physreva.108.029902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.108.029902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48702,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review a","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42894331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}