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Quantum Measurement State Discrimination

Active polarization stabilization of fields in an optical fiber for protective measurements

arXiv
Authors: E. Pascoe, A. Catalan, J. Sharkansky, M. Beck

Year

2026

Paper ID

3173

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Preprint

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Abstract

We have performed Zeno protective measurements of quantum polarization states by coupling the polarization to a temporal pointer (arrival time) in a birefringent optical fiber. It is necessary to actively stabilize the polarization, and we do this by using the signal photon counts themselves as the error signal in a feedback loop. We compare these measurements to a stabilization scheme using a classical reference beam as the error signal. The method using photon counts has higher signal levels and significantly reduced background. These improvements allow us to increase the number of Zeno stages in our measurements from 9 to 13, with a corresponding decrease in the measurement uncertainty.

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  • We have performed Zeno protective measurements of quantum polarization states by coupling the polarization to a temporal pointer (arrival time) in a birefringent optical fiber.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:2601.20991 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20991 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20991

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