Single-photon decision maker

Decision making is critical in our daily lives and for society in general and is finding evermore practical applications in information and communication technologies. Herein, we demonstrate experimentally that single photons can be used to make decisions in uncertain, dynamically changing environments. Using a nitrogen-vacancy in a nanodiamond as a single-photon source, we demonstrate the decision-making capability by solving the multi-armed bandit problem. This capability is directly and immediately associated with single-photon detection in the proposed architecture, leading to adequate and adaptive autonomous decision making. This study makes it possible to create systems that benefit from the quantum nature of light to perform practical and vital intelligent functions.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Scientific Reports

• Publication date

  2015-08-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/srep13253arXiv 1509.00638PMID 26278007PMCID 4538607
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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