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Harmonic oscillator coherent states are well known to be the analogue of classical states. On the other hand, nonlinear and generalised coherent states may possess nonclassical properties. In this article, we study the nonclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-02 Anaelle Hertz , Sanjib Dey , Véronique Hussin , Hichem Eleuch

We theoretically propose a method for on-demand generation of traveling Schr\"odinger cat states, namely, quantum superpositions of distinct coherent states of traveling fields. This method is based on deterministic generation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Hayato Goto , Zhirong Lin , Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Yasunobu Nakamura

We study the nonclassicality of the evolution of a superposition of an arbitrary number of photon-added squeezed coherent Schr\"{o}dinger cat states in a nonlinear Kerr medium. The nonlinearity of the medium gives rise to the periodicities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 R. Chakrabarti , V. Yogesh

We establish some of the properties of the states interpolating between number and coherent states denoted by $| n >_{\lambda}$; among them are the reproducing of these states by the action of an operator-valued function on $| n>$ (the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Roknizadeh , M. K. Tavassoly

We show that generalized coherent states follow Schr\"{o}dinger dynamics in time-dependent potentials. The normalized wave-packets follow a classical evolution without spreading; in turn, the Schr\"{o}dinger potential depends on the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. De Martino , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati

We investigate the time evolution of a superposition of macroscopically distinct quantum states in a system of two-level atoms interacting with a thermal environment of photon modes. We show that the atomic coherent states are robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Peter Foldi , Attila Czirjak , Mihaly G. Benedict

The orthogonality of cat and displaced cat states, underlying Heisenberg limited measurement in quantum metrology, is studied in the limit of large number of states. The asymptotic expression for the corresponding state overlap function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-18 Raman Sharma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

In this paper, we propose an algorithm to construct coherent states for an exactly solvable position dependent mass Schr\"odinger equation. We use point canonical transformation method and obtain ground state eigenfunction of the position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 V Chithiika Ruby , M Senthilvelan

We construct the deformed generators of Schroedinger symmetry consistent with noncommutative space. The examples of the free particle and the harmonic oscillator, both of which admit Schroedinger symmetry, are discussed in detail. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 Rabin Banerjee

The presence of negative values in the Wigner quasiprobability distribution is deemed one of the hallmarks of nonclassical phenomena in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate a classical model of squeezed light that, when combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Brian R. La Cour

Coherent-state superpositions are of great importance for many quantum subjects, ranging from foundational to technological, e.g., from tests of collapse models to quantum metrology. Here we explore various aspects of these states, related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Naeem Akhtar , Barry C. Sanders , Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch

Homodyne measurements are a widely used quantum measurement. Using a coherent state of large amplitude as the local oscillator, it can be shown that the quantum homodyne measurement limits to a field quadrature measurement. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Joshua Combes , Austin P. Lund

We present the general solutions for the classical and quantum dynamics of the anharmonic oscillator coupled to a purely diffusive environment. In both cases, these solutions are obtained by the application of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-07 J. G. Peixoto de Faria

The exact and stable evolutions of generalized coherent states (GCS) for quantum systems are considered by making use of the time-dependent integrals of motion method and of the Klauder approach to the relationship between quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Nikolov , D. A. Trifonov

We introduce coherent-state propagation, a computational framework for simulating bosonic systems. We focus on bosonic circuits composed of displaced linear optics augmented by Kerr nonlinearities, a universal model of bosonic quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Nikita Guseynov , Zoë Holmes , Armando Angrisani

We demonstrate an optical method to engineer optical Schr\"odinger cat states (SCSs) of large size beta ranging from beta=2 to beta=3 with high fidelity close to 0.99. Our approach uses the alpha-representation of the SCSs in infinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Evgeny V. Mikheev , Sergey A. Podoshvedov , Nguyen Ba An

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

Physical systems usually exhibit quantum behavior, such as superpositions and entanglement, only when they are sufficiently decoupled from a lossy environment. Paradoxically, a specially engineered interaction with the environment can…

The orthogonality of cat and displaced cat states, underlying Heisenberg limited measurement in quantum metrology, is studied in the limit of large number of states. The asymptotic expression for the corresponding state overlap function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Raman Sharma , Suranjana Ghosh , Utpal Roy , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

A Fokker-Planck equation for the Wigner function evolution in a noisy Kerr medium ($\chi^{(3)}$ non-linearity) is presented. We numerically solved this equation taking a coherent state as an initial condition. The dissipation effects are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Magdalena Stobińska , G. J. Milburn , Krzysztof Wódkiewicz