Scheme of directly measuring quantum density matrix by <i>δ</i>-quench method

Wen Yong-Li; Zhang Shan-Chao; Yan Hui; Zhu Shi-Liang

doi:10.7498/aps.70.20210269

Abstract

Density matrix, which characterizes a quantum state, plays an important role in quantum mechanics. Recently, a method which can directly measure the elements of a density matrix was proposed. Compared with the conventional quantum state tomography which is widely used to reconstruct the density matrix, this measurement method has the advantages of directness and simplicity. However, this direct measurement method relies on an extra pointer space. The addition of this extra pointer can increase the complexity of an experiment. In this paper, we first review previous work on direct measurement, then we propose a scheme to directly measure the density matrix based on δ-quench, which is also a direct measurement method but needs no additional pointer. This proposal reduces the complexity of the measuring system and further simplifies the measurement. We propose two schemes to realize this δ-quench measurement, then analyse their superiorities in different situations of measurement. An experiment to measure photon's density matrix is also designed.

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1.
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
2.
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials, School of Physics and Telecommunication Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
3.
Frontier Research Institute for Physics, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Quantum Matter, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

Corresponding author: Zhu Shi-Liang, slzhu@scnu.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2019B030330001), the Key Project of Science and Technology of Guangzhou, China (Grant Nos. 201804020055, 2019050001), the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0301803), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12074180)

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图 1 (a) 文献[30]中有指针直接测量密度矩阵的方法; (b) 本文提出的无指针直接测量密度矩阵的方法

Figure 1. (a) Schematic of direct measurement method of the density matrix with pointer in Ref. [30]; (b) our proposal of direct measurement method of the density matrix without pointer.

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图 2 (a) 文献[30]提出的有指针直接测量密度矩阵的实验方案; (b) 本文提出的无指针直接测量密度矩阵实验方案

Figure 2. (a) Schematic of direct measurement of the density matrix with pointer in Ref. [30]; (b) experimental proposal of our direct measurement without pointer.

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