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We study the characteristics of the light generated by few emitters in a cavity at strong light-matter coupling. By means of the Glauber $g^{(2)}$-function we can identify clearly distinguished parameter regimes with super-Poissonian and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 D. Pagel , A. Alvermann , H. Fehske

We investigate a hybrid electro-optomechanical system that allows us to obtain controllable strong Kerr nonlinearities in the weak-coupling regime. We show that when the controllable electromechanical subsystem is close to its quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Xin-You Lü , Wei-Min Zhang , Sahel Ashhab , Ying Wu , Franco Nori

We propose a scheme to generate spin cat states, i.e., superpositions of maximally separated quasiclassical states on a single high-dimensional nuclear spin in a solid-state device. We exploit a strong quadrupolar nonlinearity to drive the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Pragati Gupta , Arjen Vaartjes , Xi Yu , Andrea Morello , Barry C. Sanders

It is well known that the current-biased Josephson junction (CBJJ) can serve as a Josephson threshold detector (JTD) for the sensitive detection of weak microwave signals. Based on the recent work (PRB {\bf 111}, 024501 (2025)) on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Y. Q. Chai , M. Y. Wang , S. N. Wang , P. H. Ouyang , L. F. Wei

Highly nonclassical states of light - such as the approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill states, states exhibiting cubic nonlinear squeezing, or cat-like states - can be generated from experimentally accessible Gaussian states via photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Jaromír Fiurášek

We present a general model to account for the multimode nature of the quantum electromagnetic field in projective photon-counting measurements. We focus on photon-subtraction experiments, where non-gaussian states are produced…

We theoretically investigated the biphoton state generated by spontaneous four wave mixing (SpFWM) in ultrathin nonlinear films. The expression of the biphoton state is obtained by perturbation method, in which the longitudinal phase…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-17 Chenzhi Yuan , Wei Zhang , Yidong Huang

Nonclassicality criteria based on intensity moments and derived from the usual matrix approach are compared to those provided by the majorization theory. The majorization theory is shown to give a greater number of more suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Ievgen I. Arkhipov , Jan Peřina , Ondřej Haderka , Václav Michálek

We address the problem of constructing witnesses for nonclassical light that are applicable in state-of-the-art photon-counting devices. The key ingredient for the criteria we derive are generalized and directly measurable counting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Suchitra Krishnaswamy , Martina Jung , Laura Ares , Martin Gärttner , Jan Sperling

We present a statistical model of non-interacting individual classical particles that may lead to a microscopic implementation of quantum mechanics. The model requires the action of a special type of detector that detects and records…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Ioannis Contopoulos

We propose a feasible experimental scheme to improve the few-photon optomechanical effects, including photon blockade and mechanical-Schrodinger cat-state generation, as well as photon-phonon entanglement in a tripartite microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Hossein Solki , Ali Motazedifard , Mohammad Hossein Naderi

Quantum entanglement, one of the defining features of quantum mechanics, has been demonstrated in a variety of nonlinear spin-like systems. Quantum entanglement in linear systems has proven significantly more challenging, as the intrinsic…

Optical Schr\"{o}dinger cat states are non-Gaussian states with applications in quantum technologies, such as for building error-correcting states in quantum computing. Yet the efficient generation of high-fidelity optical Schr\"{o}dinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Haoyuan Luo , Sahand Mahmoodian

A scheme for generating Schr\"{o}dinger cat-like states of a single-mode optical field by means of conditional measurement is proposed. Feeding into a beam splitter a squeezed vacuum and counting the photons in one of the output channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Dakna , T. Anhut , T. Opartny , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

We generalize the theoretical modeling of collective atomic super- and subradiance to the multilevel case including spontaneous emission from several excited states towards a common ground state. We show that in a closely packed ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Raphael Holzinger , Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch

Nonlinear squeezing is a property of non-Gaussian states of light with an important application in continuous variable quantum computing. We study the generation of nonlinear squeezing in multimode systems produced by the photon-added…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Vojtěch Kala , Denis Kopylov , Petr Marek , Polina Sharapova

Strong laser-atom interactions can produce highly non-classical states of light by using the process of high-harmonic generation in atoms. When the high-harmonic generation is present, the quantum state of the fundamental mode following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Shahab Ramezanpour

In the present paper, we have studied the higher as well as the lower-order nonclassicalities of photon-added-then-subtracted and photon-subtracted-then-added thermal and even coherent states. Different criteria such as Mandel's function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Deepak , Arpita Chatterjee

The observation of light super-partners from a supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model is an intensely sought-after experimental outcome, providing an explanation for the stabilization of the electroweak scale and indicating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-01 Paul Jackson , Christopher Rogan , Marco Santoni

A semi-classical approach is used to calculate radiation emission in the collision of an electron with an intense focused laser pulse. The results are compared to predictions from the locally constant field and locally monochromatic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Christian F. Nielsen , Robert Holtzapple , Ben King