Abstract
A linear 50/50 beamsplitter, together with a coincidence measurement, has been widely used in quantum optical experiments, such as teleportation, dense coding, etc., for interferometrically distin- guishing, measuring, or projecting onto one of the four two-photon polarization Bell-states |(−)〉. In this paper, we demonstrate that the coincidence measurement at the output of a beamsplitter cannot be used as an absolute identifier of the input state |(−)〉 nor as an indication that the input photons have projected to the |(−)〉 state.
© 2005 Optical Society of America
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