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We study an experimental scheme to generate Gaussian two-mode entangled states via beam splitter. Specifically, we consider a nonclassical Gaussian state (squeezed state) and a thermal state as two input modes, and evaluate the degree of…

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In the coordinate representation of thermofield dynamics, we investigate the thermalized displaced squeezed thermal state which involves two temperatures successively. We give the wavefunction and the matrix element of the density operator…

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Correlated states of light, both classical and quantum, can find useful applications in the implementation of several imaging techniques. Among the employed sources, pseudo-thermal states, generated by the passage of a laser beam through a…

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This work analyses the temporal coherence and correlation of counterpropagating twin photons generated in a quasi-phase matched nonlinear cristal by spontaneous parametric-down conversion. We find out different pictures depending on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Alessandra Gatti , Tommaso Corti , Enrico Brambilla

The change of a quantum state can generally only be fully monitored through simultaneous measurements of two non-commuting observables X and Y spanning a phase space. A measurement device that is coupled to the thermal environment provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Jascha Zander , Roman Schnabel

We study the quantum coherence properties of a finite sized atomic condensate using a toy-model and the thin spectrum model formalism. The decoherence time for a condensate in the ground state, nominally taken as a variational symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-18 T. Birol , T. Dereli , Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu , L. You

We study non-Gaussian states generated by two-photon subtraction from a cw squeezed light source. In a cw scheme one can subtract two photons from the source with a designated time separation and can genarate temporally multiplexed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahide Sasaki , Masahiro Takeoka , Hiroki Takahashi

A nonlinear planar waveguide pumped by a beam orthogonal to its surface may serve as a versatile source of photon pairs. Changing pump-pulse duration, pump-beam transverse width, and angular decomposition of pump-beam frequencies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jan Perina

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

Coherence properties of the down-converted beams generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion are investigated in detail using an iCCD camera. Experimental results are compared with those from a theoretical model developed for pulsed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Martin Hamar , Jan Perina , Ondrej Haderka , Vaclav Michalek

The coupling of two-level quantum systems to the thermal environment is a fundamental problem, with applications ranging from qubit state preparation to spin models. However, for the elementary problem of the thermodynamics of an ensemble…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-29 Christian Kurtscheid , Andreas Redmann , Frank Vewinger , Julian Schmitt , Martin Weitz

Superbunching pseudothermal light has important applications in studying the second- and higher-order interference of light in quantum optics. Unlike the photon statistics of thermal or pseudothermal light is well understood, the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Chaoqi Wei , Jianbin Liu , Xuexing Zhang , Rui Zhuang , Yu Zhou , Hui Chen , Yuchen He , Huaibin Zheng , Zhuo Xu

We experimentally squeeze the thermal motional state of an optically levitated nanosphere, by fast switching between two trapping frequencies. The measured phase space distribution of our particle shows the typical shape of a squeezed…

Superstatistics is a framework in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics that successfully describes a wide variety of complex systems, including hydrodynamic turbulence, weakly-collisional plasmas, cosmic rays, power grid fluctuations, among…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Sergio Davis

We present an experimental investigation of how ground-state decoherence and phase mismatch influence biphoton generation in double-{\Lambda} spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) within a cold atomic ensemble. Our results reveal significant…

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Propagating modes of light with negative-valued Wigner distributions are of fundamental interest in quantum optics and represent a key resource in the pursuit of optics-based quantum information technologies. Most schemes proposed or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Miriam. J. Leonhardt , Scott Parkins

A new kind of tripartite non-symmetric coordinate coherent-entangled state (TNCCES) $ | \beta,\gamma,x >$ is proposed which exhibits the properties of both coherence and entanglement and makes up a new quantum mechanical representation.We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-30 Xu Ma , Shuangxi Zhang , Gang Ren

We show that the spatial coherence of thermal radiation can be manipulated in time-modulated photonic systems supporting surface polaritons. We develop a fluctuational electrodynamics formalism for such systems to calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-01 Renwen Yu , Shanhui Fan

We propose a two-photon micromaser-based scheme for the generation of a nonclassical state from a mixed state. We conclude that a faster, as well as a higher degree of field purity is achieved in comparison to one-photon processes. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 A. F. Gomes , J. A. Roversi , A. Vidiella-Barranco

We demonstrate sub-shot-noise photon-number correlations in a (temporal) multimode mesoscopic ($\sim 10^3$ detected photons) twin-beam produced by ps-pulsed spontaneous non-degenerate parametric downconversion. We have separately detected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria Bondani , Alessia Allevi , Guido Zambra , Matteo G. A. Paris , Alessandra Andreoni