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Bright squeezed vacuum (BSV) is a non-classical macroscopic state of light, which can be generated through high-gain parametric down-conversion or four-wave mixing. Although BSV is an important tool in quantum optics and has a lot of…

Optical fields provide an accessible platform to explore connections between classical and quantum mechanics. We introduce a group-theoretic framework based on the $\mathrm{su}(1,1)$ Lie algebra to construct classical analogs of…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , F. E. Becerra

By generalizing the quantum weak measurement protocol to the case of quantum fields, we show that weak measurements probe an effective classical background field that describes the average field configuration in the spacetime region between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Justin Dressel , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

Sensing and imaging are among the most important applications of quantum information science. To investigate their fundamental limits and the possibility of quantum enhancements, researchers have for decades relied on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Xiao-Ming Lu , Mankei Tsang

Non-Gaussian operations on two mode squeezed vacuum states (TMSV) in continuous variable measurement device independent quantum key distribution (CV-MDI-QKD) protocols have been shown to effectively increase the total transmission distances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Chandan Kumar , Jaskaran Singh , Soumyakanti Bose , Arvind

We present controllable generation of various kinds of highly nonclassical states of light, including the single photon state and superposition states of mesoscopically distinct components. The high nonclassicality of the generated states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-05 K. Wakui , H. Takahashi , A. Furusawa , M. Sasaki

We study the nonclassicality of photon-added squeezed vacuum (PASV) and its decoherence in thermal environment in terms of the sub-Poissonian statistics and the negativity of Wigner function (WF). By converting the PASV to a squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Li-yun Hu , Hong-yi Fan

One of the most fundamental quantum states of light is squeezed vacuum, in which noise in one of the quadratures is less than the standard quantum noise limit. Significant progress has been made in the generation of optical squeezed vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Rajveer Nehra , Ryoto Sekine , Luis Ledezma , Qiushi Guo , Robert M. Gray , Arkadev Roy , Alireza Marandi

We calculate exactly the quantum mechanical, temporal Wigner quasiprobability density for a single-mode, degenerate parametric amplifier for a system in the Gaussian state, viz., a displaced-squeezed thermal state. The Wigner function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Moorad Alexanian

The description of complex systems requires a progressively larger number of parameters. However, in practice, it often happens that a small subset of parameters suffices to describe the dynamics of the system itself: these combinations are…

We explore a possible link between the structure of space at short length scales and the emergence of classical phenomena at macroscopic scales. To this end we adopt the paradigm of non-commutative space at short length scales and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 IB Pittaway , FG Scholtz

We study quantum measurement with preselection and postselection, and derive the precise expressions of the measurement results without any restriction on the coupling strength between the system and the measuring device. For a qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-18 Xuanmin Zhu , Yuxiang Zhang , Shengshi Pang , Chang Qiao , Quanhui Liu , Shengjun Wu

We investigate entanglement phase transitions from volume-law to area-law entanglement in a quantum many-body state under continuous position measurement on the basis of the quantum trajectory approach. We find the signatures of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-15 Yohei Fuji , Yuto Ashida

Significant achievements in the reduction of classical-noise floor will allow macroscopic systems to prepare nearly Heisenberg-Limited quantum states through a continuous measurement, i.e. conditioning. In order to probe the conditional…

We analyze squeezing of the nanoresonator state produced by periodic measurement of position by a quantum point contact or a single-electron transistor. The mechanism of squeezing is the stroboscopic quantum nondemolition measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rusko Ruskov , Keith Schwab , Alexander N. Korotkov

Quantum computing, with its potential to enhance various machine learning tasks, allows significant advancements in kernel calculation and model precision. Utilizing the one-class Support Vector Machine alongside a quantum kernel, known for…

Non-Gaussian states of light are a critical resource for fault-tolerant quantum computing and enhanced metrology, but are typically faint and often obtained via post-selection. Here, we demonstrate the deterministic generation of a bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Andrei Rasputnyi , Ilya Karuseichyk , Gerd Leuchs , Denis Seletskiy , Maria Chekhova

Squeezed, nonclassical states are an integral tool of quantum metrology due to their ability to push the sensitivity of a measurement apparatus beyond the limits of classical states. While their creation in light has become a standard…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-15 Paul Juschitz

The pursuit of quantum-enhanced parameter estimations without the need for nonclassical initial states has long been driven by the goal of achieving experimentally accessible quantum metrology. In this work, employing a coherent averaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Yuguo Su , Tiantian Ying , Bo Liu , Xiao-Guang Wang

Quantum sensing harnesses the unique properties of quantum systems to enable precision measurements of physical quantities such as time, magnetic and electric fields, acceleration, and gravitational gradients well beyond the limits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ivana Nikoloska , Ruud Van Sloun , Osvaldo Simeone