Title

Fuzzy simultaneous measurement of two polarization vector components

Authors

Authors

S. Shepard

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Appl. Optics

Keywords

QUANTUM-THEORY; Optics

Abstract

The advent of quantum computers threatens the security of conventional encryption schemes (e.g., those based upon the excessive a-mount of computational time that might be required to guess your password). Quantum encryption is intended to restore the security by basing it instead upon the impossibility of the simultaneous measurement of two noncommuting operators. I derive a measurement associated with the angular momentum lowering operator, which describes a simultaneous (yet realizable) measurement of two noncommuting spin-vector components. Correlations between two such detectors are also discussed and compared with the conventional Stern-Gerlach results. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

Journal Title

Applied Optics

Volume

45

Issue/Number

10

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.45.002205

Language

English

First Page

2205

Last Page

2208

WOS Identifier

WOS:000236572000008

ISSN

1559-128X

Recommended Citation

"Fuzzy simultaneous measurement of two polarization vector components" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6578.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6578