Quantum trajectories for propagating Fock states

Ben Q. Baragiola; Joshua Combes

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.96.023819

Quantum trajectories for propagating Fock states

Quantum Physics 2017-08-18 v2

Authors: Ben Q. Baragiola , Joshua Combes

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Abstract

We derive quantum trajectories (also known as stochastic master equations) that describe an arbitrary quantum system probed by a propagating wave packet of light prepared in a continuous-mode Fock state. We consider three detection schemes of the output light: photon counting, homodyne detection, and heterodyne detection. We generalize to input field states that are superpositions and or mixtures of Fock states and illustrate the formalism with several examples.

Keywords

quantum state space quantum mechanics quantum optics

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@article{arxiv.1704.00101,
  title  = {Quantum trajectories for propagating Fock states},
  author = {Ben Q. Baragiola and Joshua Combes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00101},
  year   = {2017}
}

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20 pages, 4 figures

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