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Quantum-polarization state tomography

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a method for quantum-state tomography of qudits encoded in the quantum polarization of -photon states. This is achieved by distributing photons nondeterministically into three paths and their subsequent projection, which for is equivalent to measuring the Stokes (or Pauli) operators. The statistics of the recorded -fold coincidences determines the unknown -photon polarization state uniquely. The proposed, fixed setup manifestly rules out any systematic measurement errors due to moving components and allows for simple switching between tomography of different states, which makes it ideal for adaptive tomography schemes.

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