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Non-Gaussian and nonclassical states and processes are already found to be important resources for performing various tasks related to quantum gravity and quantum information processing. The effect of non-Gaussianity inducing operators on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Priya Malpani , Kishore Thapliyal , J. Banerji , Anirban Pathak

Non-Gaussian operations are essential to exploit the quantum advantages in optical continuous variable quantum information protocols. We focus on mode-selective photon addition and subtraction as experimentally promising processes to create…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Mattia Walschaers , Claude Fabre , Valentina Parigi , Nicolas Treps

Violation of Bell inequality is a prominent detection method for quantum correlations present in composite quantum systems, both in finite and infinite dimensions. We investigate the consequence on the violation of local realism based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Saptarshi Roy , Titas Chanda , Tamoghna Das , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

We show that conditional output measurement on a beam splitter may be used to produce photon-added states for a large class of signal-mode quantum states, such as thermal states, coherent states, squeezed states, displaced photon-number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Dakna , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

Quantum tomography is the standard method of reconstructing the Wigner function of quantum states of light by means of balanced homodyne detection. The reconstruction quality strongly depends on the photodetectors quantum efficiency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 E. Knyazev , K. Yu. Spasibko , M. V. Chekhova , F. Ya. Khalili

In this work a quantum imaging setup based on undetected squeezed photons is employed for metrological applications such as sensitive phase measurement and quantum imaging. In spite of the traditional quantum imaging with undetected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 S. Samimi , Z. Ghasemi , H. Mohammadi

We introduce a high-dimensional quantum encoding based on coherent mode-dependent single-photon subtraction from multimode squeezed states. This encoding can be seen as a generalization to the case of non-zero squeezing of the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Francesco Arzani , Alessandro Ferraro , Valentina Parigi

We propose a method to perform precision measurements of the interaction parameters in systems of N ultra-cold spin 1/2 atoms. The spectroscopy is realized by first creating a coherent spin superposition of the two relevant internal states…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Rey , L. Jiang , M. D. Lukin

In this paper we discuss the quantum properties for superposition of squeezed displaced number states against multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM). In particular, we investigate atomic inversion, photon-number distribution, purity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Faisal A A El-Orany , A-S Obada

We show the utility of the weak value amplification to observe the quantum interference between two close lying atomic coherent states in a post-selected atomic cat state, produced in a system of $N$ identical two-level atoms weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Sumei Huang , Girish S. Agarwal

Based on the conventional Mach-Zehnder interferometer, we propose a metrological scheme to improve phase sensitivity. In this scheme, we use a coherent state and a squeezed vacuum state as input states, employ multi-photon-subtraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qisi Zhou , Qinqian Kang , Tao Jiang , Zekun Zhao , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We implement the squeezing operation as a genuine quantum gate, deterministically and reversibly acting `online' upon an input state no longer restricted to the set of Gaussian states. More specifically, by applying an efficient and robust…

Distinguishing quantum states with minimal sampling overhead is of fundamental importance to teach quantum data to an algorithm. Recently, the quantum Wasserstein distance emerged from the theory of quantum optimal transport as a promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Gonzalo Camacho , Benedikt Fauseweh

The addition of a single photon to a light field can lead to exactly the same \emph{outcome} as the subtraction of a single photon. We prove that this \cterm is true for pure squeezed vacuum states of light, and in some sense only for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ole Steuernagel , Ray-Kuang Lee

Quantum metrology enables estimation of optical phase shifts with precision beyond the shot-noise limit. One way to exceed this limit is to use squeezed states, where the quantum noise of one observable is reduced at the expense of…

We propose a novel quantum diffraction imaging technique whereby one photon of an entangled pair is diffracted off a sample and detected in coincidence with its twin. The image is obtained by scanning the photon that did not interact with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shahaf Asban , Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shaul Mukamel

In this paper, a quantitative investigation of the non-classical and quantum non-Gaussian characters of the photon-subtracted displaced Fock state $|{\psi}\rangle=a^kD(\alpha)|{n}\rangle$, where $k$ is number of photons subtracted, $n$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-29 Deepak , Arpita Chatterjee

Subtracting accidental coincidences is a common practice quantum optics experiments. For zero mean Gaussian states, such as squeezed vacuum, we show that if one removes accidental coincidences the measurement results are quantitatively the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Eric Lantz , Fabrice Devaux , Serge Massar

The measurement of quantum states is one of the most important problems in quantum mechanics. We introduce a quantum state tomography technique in which the state of a qubit is reconstructed, while the qubit remains undetected. The key…

We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Polish metric spaces, designed to bypass the computational intractability of exact optimal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos , Leandro Vicente Mauri , Washington Mio , Tom Needham