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Superposed Coherent States improve fidelity of NOON states generated in post-selection

Quantum Physics 2015-06-18 v1

Abstract

Mixing the squeezed vacuum and coherent state in a beam-splitter generates NOON states of the electromagnetic field, but with fidelity less than unity. In this note it is shown that the output of the beam-splitter generates the NOON states with unit fidelity if superposed coherent states are used instead of the squeezed vacuum. Also, the post-selection probability of NOON states is shown to be higher.

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@article{arxiv.1401.8215,
  title  = {Superposed Coherent States improve fidelity of NOON states generated in post-selection},
  author = {S. Sivakumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.8215},
  year   = {2015}
}