Friday, November 16, 2012

1211.3538 (M V Chekhova et al.)

The Schmidt modes of biphoton qutrits: Poincare-sphere representation    [PDF]

M V Chekhova, M V Fedorov
For a general-form polarization biphoton qutrit, physically corresponding to a pair of arbitrarily polarized photons in a single frequency and wavevector mode, we explicitly find polarization Schmidt modes. A simple method is suggested for factorizing the state vector and the explicit expressions for the factorizing photon creation operators are found. The degrees of entanglement and polarization of a qutrit are shown to depend directly on the commutation features of the factorizing operators. Clear graphic representations for the Stokes vectors of the qutrit state as a whole, its Schmidt modes, and factorizing single-photon creation operators are given, based on the Poincare sphere.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3538

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