English
Related papers

Related papers: Optimal sensing of photon addition and subtraction…

200 papers

The addition or subtraction of a photon from a Gaussian state of light is a versatile and experimentally feasible procedure to create non-Gaussian states. In multimode setups, these states manifest a wide range of phenomena when the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Mattia Walschaers , Claude Fabre , Valentina Parigi , Nicolas Treps

Photon addition to quantized light is of immense interest, both experimentally and theoretically. We identify a set of markers that play an important role in the context of photon addition to coherent states of light. These markers are…

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

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

The cat state is shown to `store' a single photon through the superposition of its orthogonal counterpart with itself, and an excited oscillator state. Photon addition leads to a $\pi $ phase shift at origin in the observed phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Arman , Gargi Tyagi , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Various nonclassical and quantum phase properties of photon added then subtracted displaced Fock state have been examined systematically and rigorously. Higher-order moments of the relevant bosonic operators are computed to test the…

The presence of negative values in the Wigner quasiprobability distribution is deemed one of the hallmarks of nonclassical phenomena in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate a classical model of squeezed light that, when combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Brian R. La Cour

The accuracy of quantum measurements can be effectively improved by using both photon-added non-Gaussian operations and Kerr nonlinear phase shifters. Here, we employ coherent state mixed photon-added squeezed vacuum state as input into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Shoukang Chang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

Using the normally ordered Gaussian form of displaced-squeezed thermal field characteristic of average photon number n, we introduce the photon-added squeezed thermo state (PASTS) and investigate its statistical properties, such as Mandel's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xue-xiang Xu , Li-yun Hu , Hong-yi Fan

Two-photon absorption (TPA) is of fundamental importance in super-resolution imaging and spectroscopy. Its nonlinear character allows for the prospect of using quantum resources, such as entanglement, to improve measurement precision or to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Gaetano Frascella , Frank Schlawin

Boson sampling is a simple model for non-universal linear optics quantum computing using far fewer physical resources than universal schemes. An input state comprising vacuum and single photon states is fed through a Haar-random linear…

The process of single-photon subtraction (SPS) is known to dramatically alter the properties of certain quantum optical states. Somewhat surprisingly, subtracting zero photons can also modify quantum states and has practical applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 C. M. Nunn , J. D. Franson , T. B. Pittman

Quantum metrology exploits quantum correlations to make precise measurements with limited particle numbers. By utilizing inter- and intra- mode correlations in an optical interferometer, we find a state that combines entanglement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 P. A. Knott , T. J. Proctor , A. J. Hayes , J. P. Cooling , J. A. Dunningham

The non-Gaussian operations effected by adding or subtracting a photon on the entangled optical beams emerging from a parametric down-conversion process have been suggested to enhance entanglement. Heralded photon addition or subtraction…

In the present paper, we have studied the higher as well as the lower-order nonclassicalities of photon-added-then-subtracted and photon-subtracted-then-added thermal and even coherent states. Different criteria such as Mandel's function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Deepak , Arpita Chatterjee

Photon addition operations applied to squeezed states have been shown to significantly enhance phase sensitivity. In this study, we extend this approach by applying photon addition not only to coherent states but also within a Mach--Zehnder…

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

We investigate how the entanglement characteristics of a non-Gaussian entangled state are increased or decreased by a local photon subtraction operation. The non-Gaussian entangled state is generated by injecting a single-mode non-Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Su-Yong Lee , Se-Wan Ji , Chang-Woo Lee

Probability distributions play a central role in quantum mechanics, and even more so in quantum optics with its rich diversity of theoretically conceivable and experimentally accessible quantum states of light. Quantifiers that compare two…

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

We theoretically analyze phase sensitivity using parity detection based Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with the input states generated by performing non-Gaussian operations, viz., photon subtraction, photon addition, and photon catalysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Chandan Kumar , Rishabh , Shikhar Arora

In this paper, ordinary and amplitude-squared squeezing as well as Wigner functions of single-photon-added coherent state after postselected von Neumann measurements are investigated. The analytical results show that the von Neumann type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Wen Jun Xu , Taximaiti Yusufu , Yusuf Turek

Quantum light generated in non-degenerate squeezers has many applications such as sub-shot-noise transmission measurements to maximise the information extracted by one photon or quantum illumination to increase the probability in target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stefan Frick , Alex McMillan , John Rarity