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Physical systems usually exhibit quantum behavior, such as superpositions and entanglement, only when they are sufficiently decoupled from a lossy environment. Paradoxically, a specially engineered interaction with the environment can…

We analyze the impact of photon loss on the photon-number statistics of Gaussian states. Specifically, we propose and carefully evaluate several methods to mitigate deviations in the photon-number distributions of lossy (displaced) squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Hendrik Ellenberg , René Sondenheimer

We experimentally investigate the non-Gaussian features of the phase-randomized coherent states, a class of states exploited in communication channels and in decoy state-based quantum key distribution protocols. In particular, we…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-31 Alessia Allevi , Stefano Olivares , Maria Bondani

We present a theoretical proposal for preparing and manipulating a state of a single continuous-variable degree of freedom confined to a nonharmonic potential. By utilizing optimally controlled modulation of the potential's position and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Piotr T. Grochowski , Hannes Pichler , Cindy A. Regal , Oriol Romero-Isart

We consider conditional photonic non-Gaussian state preparation using multimode Gaussian states and photon-number-resolving detectors in the presence of photon loss. While simulation of such state preparation is often computationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 N. Quesada , L. G. Helt , J. Izaac , J. M. Arrazola , R. Shahrokhshahi , C. R. Myers , K. K. Sabapathy

As a ubiquitous aspect of modern information technology, data compression has a wide range of applications. Therefore, a quantum autoencoder which can compress quantum information into a low-dimensional space is fundamentally important to…

Quantum error correction with biased-noise qubits can drastically reduce the hardware overhead for universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation. Cat qubits are a promising realization of biased-noise qubits as they feature an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Ronan Gautier , Alain Sarlette , Mazyar Mirrahimi

Quantum coherence is critical resource for applications in quantum technology, among which quantum-enhanced sensing represents a typical example.Compared with quantum metrology with entangled states of multiple qubits, bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xiao-Wei Zheng , Jun-Cong Zheng , Xue-Feng Pan , Pengbo Li

We investigate the behavior of a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard gas in both a ring and a hard-wall box, whose kinetic energy is made to oscillate with zero time-average, which suppresses first-order particle hopping. For intermediate and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-16 G. Pieplow , C. E. Creffield , F. Sols

We discuss several methods to produce superpositions of optical coherent states (also known as "cat states"). Cat states have remarkable properties that could allow them to be powerful tools for quantum information processing and metrology.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Glancy , H. M. Vasconcelos

Multi-photon-added cat states are constructed by repeatedly applying the creation operator to a cat state. We study in detail their photon-number distribution, $Q$ parameter, squeezing properties, and Wigner function. We show that photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jhordan Santiago , Petr Steindl

Cat states, which were initially proposed to manifest macroscopic superpositions, play an outstanding role in fundamental aspects of quantum dynamics. In addition, they have potential applications in quantum computation and quantum sensing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Zheng-Yang Zhou , Clemens Gneiting , Wei Qin , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

Continuous-variable (CV) photonic states are of increasing interest in quantum information science, bolstered by features such as deterministic resource state generation and error correction via bosonic codes. Data-efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Joseph C. Chapman , Joseph M. Lukens , Bing Qi , Raphael C. Pooser , Nicholas A. Peters

We present a fully digital approach for simulating single-mode squeezed states on a superconducting quantum processor using an enhanced bosonic encoding strategy. By mapping up to 2^{n} photonic Fock states onto n qubits, our framework…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Hengyue Li , Yusheng Yang , Zhe-Hui Wang , Shuxin Xie , Zilong Zha , Hantao Sun , Jie Chen , Jian Sun , Shenggang Ying

Multimode Gaussian states are a versatile resource for quantum information technologies and have been realized across a wide range of physical platforms. Recent progress in the large-scale generation of such states provides a key ingredient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Chan Roh , Geunhee Gwak , Young-Do Yoon , Young-Sik Ra

Quantum computing crucially relies on maintaining quantum coherence for the duration of a calculation. Bosonic quantum error correction protects this coherence by encoding qubits into superpositions of noise-resilient oscillator states. In…

The ability to engineer the quantum state of traveling optical fields is a central requirement for quantum information science and technology, including quantum communication, computing and metrology. In this video article, we describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Olivier Morin , Jianli Liu , Kun Huang , Felippe A. S. Barbosa , Claude Fabre , Julien Laurat

We suggest a nanoelectromechanical setup and corresponding time protocol of its manipulation by which we transduce quantum information from charge qubit to nanomechanical cat state. The setup is based on the AC Josephson effect between bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 D. Radić , L. Y. Gorelik , S. I. Kulinich , R. I. Shekhter

Non-Gaussian operations are essential for most bosonic quantum technologies. Yet, realizable non-Gaussian gates are rather limited in type and generally suffer from accuracy-duration trade-offs. In this work, we propose to use quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Pak-Tik Fong , Hoi-Kwan Lau

We address the evolution of cat-like states in general Gaussian noisy channels, by considering superpositions of coherent and squeezed-coherent states coupled to an arbitrarily squeezed bath. The phase space dynamics is solved and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Serafini , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati , M. G. A. Paris