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Phys. Rev. A 79, 030302(R) (2009) [4 pages]

Complete state reconstruction of a two-mode Gaussian state via local operations and classical communication

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Gustavo Rigolin* and Marcos C. de Oliveira
Instituto de Física “Gleb Wataghin,” Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) 13083-970 Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Received 5 July 2008; published 11 March 2009

We propose a strictly local protocol that is completely equivalent to global quantum state reconstruction for a bipartite system. We show that the joint density matrix of an arbitrary two-mode Gaussian state, entangled or not, is obtained via local operations and classical communication only. In contrast to previous proposals, simultaneous homodyne measurements on both modes are replaced with local homodyne detections and a set of local projective measurements.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.030302
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.79.030302
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 03.65.Wj

*rigolin@ifi.unicamp.br

marcos@ifi.unicamp.br