English

Three-dimensional Quantum Polarization Tomography of Macroscopic Bell States

Quantum Physics 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

The polarization properties of macroscopic Bell states are characterized using three-dimensional quantum polarization tomography. This method utilizes three-dimensional inverse Radon transform to reconstruct the polarization quasiprobability distribution function of a state from the probability distributions measured for various Stokes observables. The reconstructed 3D distributions obtained for the macroscopic Bell states are compared with those obtained for a coherent state with the same mean photon number. The results demonstrate squeezing in one or more Stokes observables.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1112.4282,
  title  = {Three-dimensional Quantum Polarization Tomography of Macroscopic Bell States},
  author = {Bhaskar Kanseri and Timur Iskhakov and Ivan Agafonov and Maria Chekhova and Gerd Leuchs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.4282},
  year   = {2015}
}