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Thermodynamical equilibrium is considered as an effect of quantum entangling of the vacuum state of a system. An explicit mathematical model of multi- particle entangled pure quantum states is developed and analyzed. In the framework, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Yu. Bogdanov , Yu. I. Bogdanov , K. A. Valiev

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

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

We report on the experimental observation of quantum-network-compatible light described by a non-positive Wigner function. The state is generated by photon subtraction from a squeezed vacuum state produced by a continuous wave optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Neergaard-Nielsen , B. Melholt Nielsen , C. Hettich , K. Moelmer , E. S. Polzik

We experimentally demonstrate that the entanglement between Gaussian entangled states can be increased by non-Gaussian operations. Coherent subtraction of single photons from Gaussian quadrature-entangled light pulses, created by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Ourjoumtsev , Aurelien Dantan , Rosa Tualle-Brouri , Philippe Grangier

Quantum information is a common topic of research in many areas of quantum physics, such as quantum communication and quantum computation, as well as quantum thermodynamics. It can be encoded in discrete or continuous variable systems, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Jonas F. G. Santos , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Pedro R. Dieguez

We consider a quantum quench in a non-interacting fermionic one-dimensional field-theory. The system of size $L$ is initially prepared into two halves $\mathcal{L}$ ($[-L/2,0]$) and $\mathcal{R}$ ($[0,L/2]$), each of them thermalized at two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-23 Mario Collura , Dragi Karevski

We introduce the Two-Mode Janus State (TMJS), a non-Gaussian quantum state defined as a coherent superposition of two distinct Two-Mode Squeezed States (TMSS). This construction serves as a direct, non-Gaussian generalization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Arash Azizi

We propose a new method for implementing process tomography that is based on the information extracted from temporal correlations between observables, rather than on state preparation and state tomography. As such, the approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Ran Ber , Shmuel Marcovitch , Oded Kenneth , Benni Reznik

Quantum non-Gaussian mechanical states from inherently nonlinear quantum processes are already required in a range of applications spanning from quantum sensing up to quantum computing with continuous variables. The discrete building blocks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Lukas Podhora , Lukas Lachman , Tuan Pham , Adam Lesundak , Ondrej Cip , Lukas Slodicka , Radim Filip

Microscopic Schr{\"o}dinger cat states are generated from quantum correlated fields using a probabilistic heralding photon subtraction event. Subsequent quantum state tomography provides complete information about the state with typical…

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

Non-Gaussian states of light are a critical resource for fault-tolerant quantum computing and enhanced metrology, but are typically faint and often obtained via post-selection. Here, we demonstrate the deterministic generation of a bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Andrei Rasputnyi , Ilya Karuseichyk , Gerd Leuchs , Denis Seletskiy , Maria Chekhova

In this article we introduce a novel quantum state, the perfect quantum optical vortex state which exhibits a highly localised distribution along a ring in the quadrature space. We examine its nonclassical properties using the Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Anindya Banerji , Ravindra Pratap Singh , Dhruba Banerjee , Abir Bandyopadhyay

Non-Gaussian states of an optical field are important as a proposed resource in quantum information applications. While conditional preparation is a highly successful approach to preparing such states, their quality is limited by detector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Alexander O. C. Davis , Mattia Walschaers , Valentina Parigi , Nicolas Treps

We present a proposal and a feasibility study for the creation and quantum state tomography of a single polariton state of an atomic ensemble. The collective non-classical and non-Gaussian state of the ensemble is generated by detection of…

Bosonic systems with negative Wigner function superposition states are fundamentally witnessing nonlinear quantum dynamics beyond linearized systems and, recently, have become essential resources of quantum technology with many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Michal Kolář , Radim Filip

In this contribution, we summarize a truncation-independent method to compute the equation of state within nonperturbative functional approaches. After demonstrating its viability, the method is applied to solutions obtained from a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-27 Philipp Isserstedt , Christian S. Fischer , Thorsten Steinert

We demonstrate the generation of classical incoherent light with electronic control over its temporal characteristics and photon number distribution. The tunability of the temporal coherence is shown, under both classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Deepak Pandey , Nandan Satapathy , Buti Suryabrahmam , J. Solomon Ivan , Hema Ramachandran

Quantum thermodynamics can be naturally phrased as a theory of quantum state transformation and energy exchange for small-scale quantum systems undergoing thermodynamical processes, thereby making the resource theoretical approach very well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Uttam Singh , Jarosław K. Korbicz , Nicolas J. Cerf