Optimal quantum measure for polarization of light with indefinite number of photons
Kam Wai Clifford Chan, Lu Zhang, Pramode K. Verma · 2016
In quantum information processing, one of the most common methods to represent a qubit is by means of the polarization degree of freedom of a photon. Efficient methods to determine the photon polarization state are hence the fundamental tools in the studies of qubit systems. In fact, both theoretically optimal and practical polarization measurement schemes have been investigated extensively in the past two decades. These studies nevertheless focus on the situation when a definite number of photons are given and the results demonstrate the polarization estimation performance in terms of the mean fidelity [1, 2].