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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

Superposed coherent states are central to quantum technologies, yet their reliable identification remains a challenge, especially in noisy or resource-constrained settings. We introduce a novel, directly measurable criterion for detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Šimon Bräuer , Jan Provazník , Vojtěch Kala , Petr Marek

We present a method to implement two-phonon interactions between mechanical resonators and spin qubits in hybrid setups, and show that these systems can be applied for the generation of nonclassical mechanical states even in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Antonio Lara , Jorge Puebla , Franco Nori

We propose leveraging strong and ultrastrong light-matter coupling to efficiently generate and exchange nonclassical light and quantum matter states. Two initial conditions are considered: (a) a displaced quadrature-squeezed matter state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Ilia Tutunnikov , Vasil Rokaj , Jianshu Cao , H. R. Sadeghpour

We construct a distinct class of nonlinear displaced Kerr state by application of the displacement operator upon a state which is prepared by sending the well-known photon-added coherent state through a normal Kerr medium. A sketch for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Arpita Chatterjee , Rupamanjari Ghosh

This paper develops a method of manipulating the squeezed atom state to generate a few-photon state whose phase or photon-number fluctuations are prescribed at our disposal. The squeezed atom state is a collective atomic state whose quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroki Saito , Masahito Ueda

The significance of photon addition in engineering the single- and two-mode (bipartite correlations) nonclassical properties of a quantum state is investigated. Specifically, we analyzed the behavior of the Wigner function of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Arpita Chatterjee , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak

We propose a robust scheme for generating macroscopic superposition states of spin or motion with the aid of a single photon. Shaping the wave packet of the photon enables high-fidelity preparation of non-classical states of matter even in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Emily J. Davis , Zhaoyou Wang , Amir H. Safavi-Naeini , Monika H. Schleier-Smith

We study Wigner function of a system describing entanglement of two cat-states. Quantum interferece arising due to entanglement is shown to produce sub-Planck structures in the phase-space plots of the Wigner function. Origin of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Manan Vyas

We describe a scheme for producing an optical nonlinearity using an interaction with one or more ancilla two-level atomic systems. The nonlinearity, which can be implemented using high efficiency fluorescence shelving measurements, together…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Gilchrist , G. J. Milburn , W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

We investigate the multiphoton states generated by high-gain optical parametric amplification of a single injected photon, polarization encoded as a ''qubit''. The experiment configuration exploits the optimal phase-covariant cloning in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eleonora Nagali , Tiziano De Angelis , Fabio Sciarrino , Francesco De Martini

The observation of quantum phenomena often necessitates sufficiently pure states, a requirement that can be challenging to achieve. In this study, our goal is to prepare a non-classical state originating from a mixed state, utilizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ian Yang , Thomas Agrenius , Vasilisa Usova , Oriol Romero-Isart , Gerhard Kirchmair

We propose a method to subtract a photon from a double sideband mode of continuous-wave light. The central idea is to use phase modulation as a frequency sideband beamsplitter in the heralding photon subtraction scheme, where a small…

Considering the two-photon exchange interaction between n coupled cavities each of them containing a two level atom, the atomic and photonic state transfer is investigated. In fact, n atom-cavity systems are considered to be distributed on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Sufiani

Photon number-squeezed states are of significant value in fundamental quantum research and have a wide range of applications in quantum metrology. Most of their preparation mechanisms require precise control of quantum dynamics and are less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Baiqiang Zhu , Keye Zhang , Weiping Zhang

We study degenerate three photon down conversion as a potential scheme for generating nonclassical states of light which exhibit clear signatures of phase space interference. The Wigner function representing these states contains an…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-30 Konrad Banaszek , Peter L. Knight

General principles and experimental schemes for generating a desired few-photon state from an aggregate of squeezed atoms are presented. Quantum-statistical information of the collective atomic dipole is found to be faithfully transferred…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Hiroki Saito , Masahito Ueda

Non-Gaussian states represent a powerful resource for quantum information protocols in the continuous variables regime. Cat states, in particular, have been produced in the motional degree of freedom of trapped ions by controlled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Magdalena Stobińska , Alessandro S. Villar , Gerd Leuchs

From the photon-added one-photon nonlinear coherent states $a^{\dagger m}|\alpha,f>$, we introduce a new type of nonlinear coherent states with negative values of $m.$ The nonlinear coherent states corresponding to the positive and negative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Xiao-Guang Wang

We propose a feasible scheme for generation of strongly non-Gaussian states using the cross-Kerr nonlinearity. The resultant states are highly non-classical states of electromagnetic field and exhibit negativity of their Wigner function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 Tomas Tyc , Natalia Korolkova