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A classical state-preparation device cannot generate states in relative superposition. We introduce classical models in which devices that are individually unable to generate states with relative superposition can be stochastically…

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Quantum technologies are powered by platforms to generate complex non-classical states of matter or light to realize applications. We investigate the non-classical properties of high-harmonic generation in semiconductors, an emerging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 David Theidel , Mackrine Nahra , Ilya Karuseichyk , Houssna Griguer , Mateusz Weis , Hamed Merdji

We make a comparative study of quadrature squeezing, photon-number distribution and Wigner function in a decayed quantum system. Specifically, for a field mode prepared initially in cat states interacting with a zero-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Faisal A. A. El-Orany

We describe a set of measurement protocols for performing non-classicality tests and the verification of entangled superposition states of macroscopic continuous variable systems, such as nanomechanical resonators. Following earlier works,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Oleg Gittsovich , Tobias Moroder , Ali Asadian , Otfried Gühne , Peter Rabl

The effect of two quantum state engineering processes that can be used to burn hole at vacuum in the photon number distribution of quantum states of radiation field are compared using various witnesses of lower- and higher-order…

Quantum states with nonlinear squeezing are a necessary resource for deterministic implementation of high-order quadrature phase gates that are, in turn, sufficient for advanced quantum information processing. We demonstrate that this class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Šimon Bräuer , Petr Marek

Non-Gaussian states are essential resources in quantum information processing. In this work, we investigate methods for quantifying bosonic non-Gaussianity in many-body systems. Building on recent theoretical insights into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Kaifeng Bu , Bikun Li

A method for generating a mesoscopic superposition state of the collective spin variable of a gas of atoms is proposed. The state consists of a superposition of the atomic spins pointing in two slightly different directions. It is obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Massar , E. S. Polzik

Quantum state tomography is a fundamental tool in quantum information processing. It allows us to estimate the state of a quantum system by measuring different observables on many identically prepared copies of the system. This is, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Carlos A. Riofrío

The non-classical nature of quantum states, often illustrated using entanglement measures or quantum discord, constitutes a resource for quantum information protocols. However, the non-classicality of a quantum system cannot be encapsulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Carole Addis , Teiko Heinosaari , Jukka Kiukas , Elsi-Mari Laine , Sabrina Maniscalco

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 introduce a new distance-based measure for the nonclassicality of the states of a bosonic field, which outperforms the existing such measures in several ways. We define for that purpose the operator ordering sensitivity of the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Stephan De Bievre , Dmitri B. Horoshko , Giuseppe Patera , Mikhail I. Kolobov

We study the dynamics of classical and quantum systems undergoing a continuous measurement of position by schematizing the measurement apparatus with an infinite set of harmonic oscillators at finite temperature linearly coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Presilla , Roberto Onofrio , Marco Patriarca

Continuous-variable quantum information processing through quantum optics offers a promising platform for building the next generation of scalable fault-tolerant information processors. To achieve quantum computational advantages and fault…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Rajveer Nehra , Miller Eaton , Olivier Pfister , Alireza Marandi

Continuous-variable quantum systems are foundational to quantum computation, communication, and sensing. While traditional representations using wave functions or density matrices are often impractical, the tomographic picture of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Liubov A. Markovich , Xiaoyu Liu , Jordi Tura

The coherent superposition of non-orthogonal fermionic Gaussian states has been shown to be an efficient approximation to the ground states of quantum impurity problems [Bravyi and Gosset,Comm. Math. Phys.,356 451 (2017)]. We present a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-01 Samuel Boutin , Bela Bauer

Quantum state tomography is a technique in quantum information science used to reconstruct the density matrix of an unknown quantum state, providing complete information about the quantum state. It is of significant importance in fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Wenlong Zhao , Da Zhang , Huili Zhang , Haifeng Yu , Zhang-qi Yin

Quantum nonclassicality is the basic building stone for the vast majority of quantum information applications and methods of its generation are at the forefront of research. One of the obstacles any method needs to clear is the looming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Petr Marek , Lukas Lachman , Lukas Slodicka , Radim Filip

We address the issue of quantifying the non-Gaussian character of a bosonic quantum state and introduce a non-Gaussianity measure based on the Hilbert-Schmidt distance between the state under examination and a reference Gaussian state. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marco G. Genoni , Matteo G. A. Paris , Konrad Banaszek

We introduce a method for the conditional generation of nonclassical states of light in a cavity. We consider two-level atoms traveling along the transverse direction to the cavity axis and show that by conditioning on one of the output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Karsten Weiher , Elizabeth Agudelo , Martin Bohmann