Peter Milonni, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Prof. Shunlong Luo, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science Chinese Academy of Sciences
Vadim Makarov, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Distinguished Lecture Series
Oleg Gittsovich, IQC
We present a framework for describing linear optical measurement devices. This leads to the definition of the squashing map. We demonstrate that this general approach gives strong statements for several measurement devices commonly used in optical implementations of quantum communication protocols.
Martin Suchara, Princeton University
Sergey Frolov, Delft University of Technology
Dr. Jianming Cai, Institut für Theoretische Physik
John Teufel, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Mario Tokoro, Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.