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Advances in circuit quantum electrodynamics have enabled the generation of arbitrary nonclassical microwave states and paved the way for addressing novel physics questions. Here, we present a theoretical study of the electrical current in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Matthias Hübler , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Wolfgang Belzig

When an ensemble of quantum emitters interacts with a common radiation field, their emission becomes collective, giving rise to superradiant and subradiant states, characterized by broadened and narrowed linewidths. In this work, we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Diego Zafra-Bono , Oriol Rubies-Bigorda , Susanne F. Yelin

Generating nonclassical light offers a benchmark tool for the fundamental research and potential applications in quantum optics. Conventionally, it has become a standard technique to produce the nonclassical light through the nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 Shengwang Du , Jianming Wen , Morton H. Rubin

We present the generation of approximated coherent state superpositions - referred to as Schr\"odinger cat states - by the process of subtracting single photons from picosecond pulsed squeezed states of light at 830 nm. The squeezed vacuum…

We motivate and introduce a class of "hierarchical" quantum superposition states of $N$ coupled quantum oscillators. Unlike other well-known multimode photonic Schr\"{o}dinger cat states such as entangled coherent states, the hierarchical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 T. J. Volkoff

In the field of continuous-variable quantum information processing, non-Gaussian states with negative values of the Wigner function are crucial for the development of a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer. While several non-Gaussian…

We use semiclassical formalism to optimize a microwave single photon detector based on switching events of a current biased Josephson junction coupled to a resonator. In order to detect very rare events, the average time between dark counts…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-20 Dmitry S. Golubev , Evgeni V. Ilichev , Leonid S. Kuzmin

Strongly correlated multi-photon states are indispensable resources for advanced quantum technologies, yet their deterministic generation remains challenging due to the inherent weak nonlinearity in most optical systems. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Jia-Qi Li , Anton Frisk Kockum , Xin Wang

Although squeezed states are nonclassical states, so far, their nonclassicality could not be demonstrated by negative quasiprobabilities. In this work we derive pattern functions for the direct experimental determination of so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 T. Kiesel , W. Vogel , B. Hage , R. Schnabel

We propose two experimental schemes for producing coherent-state superpositions which approximate different nonclassical states conditionally in traveling optical fields. Although these setups are constructed of a small number of linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Emese Molnar , Peter Adam , Gabor Mogyorosi , Matyas Mechler

We propose a scheme to prepare a macroscopic mechanical oscillator in a catlike state, close to a coherent state superposition. The mechanical oscillator, coupled by radiation-pressure interaction to a field in an optical cavity, is first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Itay Shomroni , Liu Qiu , Tobias J. Kippenberg

We propose an optical scheme to generate a superposition of coherent states with enhanced size adopting an interferometric setting at the single-photon level currently available in the laboratory. Our scheme employs a nondegenerate optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Chang-Woo Lee , Jinhyoung Lee , Hyunchul Nha , Hyunseok Jeong

We show that it is possible to generate photons in nonclassical states from a metal-dielectric interface using quantum emitters on the interface. The photons emitted into the surface plasmon mode from the initially excited emitters radiate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Karun Mehta , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta

We show that a properly dc-biased Josephson junction in series with two microwave resonators of different frequencies emits photon pairs in the resonators. By measuring auto- and inter-correlations of the power leaking out of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 M. Westig , B. Kubala , O. Parlavecchio , Y. Mukharsky , C. Altimiras , P Joyez , D. Vion , P. Roche , M. Hofheinz , D Esteve , M Trif , P. Simon , J. Ankerhold , F. Portier

We theoretically generate nonclassical states from coherent state heralded by Knill-Laflamme-Milburn (KLM)-type SU(3) interference. Injecting a coherent state in signal mode and two single-photon sources in other two auxiliary modes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Xue-xiang Xu , Shan-jun Ma

We consider theoretically how to extract mode dependent single photons from a time/frequency multimode non-classical beam. To achieve this task, we calculate the properties of sum frequency generation with a pulse shaped pump, taking into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Valentin A. Averchenko , Valérian Thiel , Nicolas Treps

When connecting a voltage-biased Josephson junction in series to several microwave cavities, a Cooper-pair current across the junction gives rise to a continuous emission of strongly correlated photons into the cavity modes. Tuning the bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Simon Dambach , Björn Kubala , Joachim Ankerhold

Practically applicable criteria for the nonclassicality of quantum states are formulated in terms of different types of moments. For this purpose the moments of the creation and annihilation operators, of two quadratures, and of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. V. Shchukin , W. Vogel

Besides the conventional transverse couplings between superconducting qubits (SQs) and electromagnetic fields, there are additional longitudinal couplings when the inversion symmetry of the potential energies of the SQs is broken. We study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Yan-Jun Zhao , Yu-Long Liu , Yu-xi Liu , Franco Nori

Production and analysis of non-Gaussian radiation fields has evinced a lot of attention recently. Simplest way of generating such non-Gaussians is through adding (subtracting) photons to Gaussian fields. Interestingly, when photons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Usha Devi , R. Prabhu , M. S. Uma