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Non-classical concerns light whose properties cannot be explained by classical electrodynamics and which requires invoking quantum principles to be understood. Its existence is a direct consequence of field quantization; its study is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Dmitry V. Strekalov , Gerd Leuchs

We establish the nonclassicality of continuous-variable states as a resource for quantum metrology. Based on the quantum Fisher information of multimode quadratures, we introduce the metrological power as a measure of nonclassicality with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Hyukjoon Kwon , Kok Chuan Tan , Tyler Volkoff , Hyunseok Jeong

Interference lies at the heart of the behavior of classical and quantum light. It is thus crucial to understand the boundaries between which interference patterns can be explained by a classical electromagnetic description of light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Luca Rigovacca , Carlo Di Franco , Benjamin J. Metcalf , Ian A. Walmsley , M. S. Kim

This article is provides an introduction to the quantum theory of optics in nonlinear dielectric media. We begin with a short summary of the classical theory of nonlinear optics, that is nonlinear optics done with classical fields. We then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mark Hillery

Nonclassicality, defined in the quantum optical sense, serves as a resource for photon-based quantum technologies. Therefore, certifying the nonclassicality of a quantum state is crucial for gauging its potential for quantum advantage.…

The purpose of quantum technologies is to explore how quantum effects can improve on existing solutions for the treatment of information. Quantum photonics sensing holds great promises for reaching a more efficient trade-off between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Marco Barbieri

Nonclassical states of light play a central role in many quantum information protocols. Their quantum features have been exploited to improve the readout of information from digital memories, modelled as arrays of microscopic beam splitters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Gaetana Spedalieri , Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Pirandola

Light beams offer many degrees of freedom to be explored in discrete and continuous domains. In addition to the possibility of entangling photons in these many degrees of freedom, it makes light a very useful and versatile tool for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Thais de Lima Silva

Polarization is one of light's most versatile degrees of freedom for both classical and quantum applications. The ability to measure light's state of polarization and changes therein is thus essential; this is the science of polarimetry. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Aaron Z. Goldberg

We introduce an experimentally accessible method to measure a unique degree of nonclassicality, based on the quantum superposition principle, for arbitrary quantum states. We formulate witnesses and test a given state for any particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 M. Mraz , J. Sperling , W. Vogel , B. Hage

Based on the measurement of quantum correlation functions, the quantum statistical properties of spectral measurements are studied for broadband radiation fields. The spectral filtering of light before its detection is compared with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 P. Grünwald , D. Vasylyev , J. Häggblad , W. Vogel

Nonclassical quantum effects gradually reach domains of physics of large systems previously considered as purely classical. We derive a hierarchy of operational criteria suitable for a reliable detection of nonclassicality of light from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-24 Lukáš Lachman , Lukáš Slodička , Radim Filip

We quantitatively investigate the non-classicality and non-locality of a whole new class of mixed disparate quantum and semiquantum photon sources at the quantum-classical boundary. The latter include photon added thermal and photon added…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Wiegner , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

We briefly review the ideas that have shaped modern optics and have led to various applications of light ranging from spectroscopy to astrophysics, and street lights to quantum communication. The review is primarily focused on the modern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Anirban Pathak , Ajoy Ghatak

We propose a definition of nonclassicality for a single-mode quantum-optical process based on its action on coherent states. If a quantum process transforms a coherent state to a nonclassical state, it is verified to be nonclassical. To…

According to Born's rule quantum probabilities are given by the overlap between the system state and measurement states in a quite symmetrical way. This means that both contribute to any observed nonclassical effect that is usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Alfredo Luis , Laura Ares

In a recent work, arXiv:2503.05884, we proposed a unified notion of nonclassicality that applies to arbitrary processes in quantum theory, including individual quantum states, measurements, channels, set of these, etc. This notion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yujie Zhang , Yìlè Yīng , David Schmid

We examine whether metrological resolution beyond coherent states is a nonclassical effect. We show that this is true for linear detection schemes but false for nonlinear schemes, and propose a very simple experimental setup to test it. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-02 Ángel Rivas , Alfredo Luis

Quantifying nonclassicality of a bosonic mode is an important but challenge task in quantum optics. Recently, the first nonclassicality measure based on the concept of operational resource theory has been proposed [Phys. Rev. Research 2,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Wenchao Ge , M. Suhail Zubairy

We introduce a method for the verification of nonclassical light which is independent of the complex interaction between the generated light and the material of the detectors. This is accomplished by means of a multiplexing arrangement. Its…

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