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We summarise important recent advances in quantum metrology, in connection to experiments in cold gases, trapped cold atoms and photons. First we review simple metrological setups, such as quantum metrology with spin squeezed states, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Geza Toth , Iagoba Apellaniz

The Wigner function was introduced as an attempt to describe quantum-mechanical fields with the tools inherited from classical statistical mechanics. In particular, it is widely used to describe the properties of radiation fields. In fact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Juan Camilo López Carreño

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters

Non-Gaussianity inducing operations are studied in the recent past from different perspectives. Here, we study the role of photon addition, a non-Gaussianity inducing operation, in the enhancement of nonclassicality in a finite dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Priya Malpani , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak

We exploit geometric properties of quantum states of light in optical cavities to carry out quantum non-demolition measurements. We generalize the 'mode invisibility' method to obtain information about the Wigner function of a squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Marvellous Onuma-Kalu , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

The quantum state of a light beam can be represented as an infinite dimensional density matrix or equivalently as a density on the plane called the Wigner function. We describe quantum tomography as an inverse statistical problem in which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 L. M. Artiles , R. D. Gill , M. I. Guta

We formulate the density matrices of a quantum state obtained by first adding multi-photons to and then subtracting multi-photons from any arbitrary state as well as performing the same process in the reverse order. Considering the field to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Arpita Chatterjee

Quantum metrology uses non-classical states, such as Fock states with a specific number of photons, to achieve an advantage over classical sensing methods. Typically, quantum metrological performance can be enhanced by increasing the…

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 investigate the capabilities of loss-tolerant quantum state characterization using a photon-number resolving, time-multiplexed detector (TMD). We employ the idea of probing the Wigner function point-by-point in phase space via photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K Laiho , M Avenhaus , K N Cassemiro , Ch Silberhorn

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to enhance the measurement sensitivity beyond that can be achieved classically. While multi-photon entangled NOON states can in principle beat the shot-noise limit and reach the Heisenberg limit,…

We demonstrate that the Wasserstein distance $W_{1}$ corresponding to optical tomograms of nonclassical states faithfully captures changes that arise due to photon addition to, or subtraction from, these states. $W_{1}$ is a true measure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Soumyabrata Paul , Arman , S. Lakshmibala , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , S. Ramanan , V. Balakrishnan

The hybrid interferometer integrating an optical parametric amplifier and a beam splitter has the potential to outperform the SU(1,1) interferometer. However, photon loss remains a critical limitation for practical implementation. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qisi Zhou , Tao Jiang , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Xin Su , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We have studied theoretical un-symmetric multi-photon subtracted twin beam state and demonstrated a method for generating states that resembles to high photon number states with the increase in the number of subtracted photons through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 N. Samantaray , J. C. F. Matthews , J. G. Rarity

While commonly used entanglement criteria for continuous variable systems are based on quadrature measurements, here we study entanglement detection from measurements of the Wigner function. These are routinely performed in platforms such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Shuheng Liu , Jiajie Guo , Qiongyi He , Matteo Fadel

We study the Wigner function for a quantum system with a discrete, infinite dimensional Hilbert space, such as a spinless particle moving on a one dimensional infinite lattice. We discuss the peculiarities of this scenario and of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 Margarida Hinarejos , A. Pérez , Mari-Carmen Bañuls

To quantify the effect of decoherence in quantum measurements, it is desirable to measure not merely the square modulus of the spatial wavefunction, but the entire density matrix, whose phases carry information about momentum and how pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Max Tegmark

The Wigner function of the compass state (a superposition of four coherent states) develops phase-space structures of dimension much less than the Planck scale, which are crucial in determining the sensitivity of these states to phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Naeem Akhtar , Jizhou Wu , Jia-Xin Peng , Wu-Ming Liu , Gao Xianlong

Quantum optical systems comprising quantum emitters interacting with engineered optical modes generate non-classical states of light that can be used as resource states for quantum-enhanced interferometry. However, outside of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Erfan Abbasgholinejad , Daniel Malz , Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Rahul Trivedi

Gaussian quantum states hold special importance in the continuous variable (CV) regime. In quantum information science, the understanding and characterization of central resources such as entanglement may strongly rely on the knowledge of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 A. S. Coelho , F. A. S. Barbosa , K. N. Cassemiro , M. Martinelli , A. S. Villar , P. Nussenzveig