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Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Quantum Simulation

Precise Monte Carlo Simulation of Single-Photon Detectors

arXiv
Authors: Mario Stipčević, Daniel J. Gauthier

Year

2014

Paper ID

46462

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Preprint

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Abstract

We demonstrate the importance and utility of Monte Carlo simulation of single-photon detectors. Devising an optimal simulation is strongly influenced by the particular application because of the complexity of modern, avalanche-diode-based single-photon detectors.. Using a simple yet very demanding example of random number generation via detection of Poissonian photons exiting a beam splitter, we present a Monte Carlo simulation that faithfully reproduces the serial autocorrelation of random bits as a function of detection frequency over four orders of magnitude of the incident photon flux. We conjecture that this simulation approach can be easily modified for use in many other applications.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1411.3663 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3663 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3663

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