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Creation of high fidelity photonic quantum states in the continuous variable regime is indispensable for the implementation of quantum technologies universally. However, this is a challenging task as it requires higher nonlinearity or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Devibala Esakkimuthu , Basherrudin Mahmud Ahmed Abduljaffer

We present a scheme of quantum state truncation in the Fock basis (quantum scissors), based on the combined action of a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier and a beamsplitter. Differently from previously proposed linear-optics-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 E. P. Mattos , A. Vidiella-Barranco

Non-Gaussian operations, in particular, photon subtraction (PS), have been shown to enhance the performance of various quantum information processing tasks including continuous variable measurement device independent quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Chandan Kumar , Sarbani Chatterjee , Arvind

The problem of photon adding and subtracting is studied, using conditional output measurement on a beam splitter. It is shown that for various classes of states the corresponding photon-added and -subtracted states can be prepared.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. -G. Welsch , M. Dakna , L. Knoll , T. Opatrny

Generating logical qubits, essential for error detection and correction in quantum computation, remains a critical challenge in continuous-variable (CV) optical quantum information processing. The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is a…

Squeezed states of light are one of the most important fundamental resources for quantum optics, optical quantum information processing and quantum sensing. Recently, it has been experimentally demonstrated that the squeezing of single-mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Jaromír Fiurášek , Stephan Grebien , Roman Schnabel

We propose a multiphoton heralding scheme using an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) that converts squeezed vacuum into two families of non-Gaussian states: large-amplitude squeezed Schr\"odinger cat states and low-order parity-selective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yusuf Turek , Ming-Yan Sun , Xiao-Xi Yao

Optical "Schr\"odinger cat" states, the non-classical superposition of two quasi-classical coherent states, serve as a basis for gedanken experiments testing quantum physics on mesoscopic scales and are increasingly recognized as a resource…

The paper considers the possibility of generating different non-Gaussian states using the entangled state photon measurement scheme. In the paper, we have proposed a way to explicitly find the wave function and the Wigner function of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 E. N. Bashmakova , S. B. Korolev , T. Yu. Golubeva

Conventional Glauber coherent states (CS) can be defined in several equivalent ways, e.g., by displacing the vacuum or, explicitly, by their infinite Poissonian expansion in Fock states. It is well known that these definitions become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Adam Miranowicz , Malgorzata Paprzycka , Anirban Pathak , Franco Nori

Photon subtraction and addition are essential non-Gaussian processes in quantum optics, where conventional methods using linear optics and number-resolving detection often suffer from low success probability. Here, we introduce the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Haoyuan Luo , Parth S. Shah , Frank Yang , Mohammad Mirhosseini , Sahand Mahmoodian

We introduce an encoding of information in the relative displacement or photon number of different optical modes. Since the loss rate to interference is insensitive to squeezing and many non-Gaussian fluctuations, such a space is relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Uchenna Chukwu , Mohammad-Ali Miri , Nicholas Chancellor

The state of a microscopic system encodes its complete quantum description, from which the probabilities of all measurement outcomes are inferred. Being a statistical concept, the state cannot be obtained from a single system realization.…

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

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…

Weak squeezed vacuum light, especially resonant to the atomic transition, plays an important role in quantum storage and generation of various quantum sources. However, the general homodyne detection (HD) cannot determine weak squeezing due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Guanhua Zuo , Yuchi Zhang , Jing Li , Shiyao Zhu , Yanqiang Guo , Tiancai Zhang

We investigate the statistical properties of the photon-subtractions from the two-mode squeezed vacuum state and its decoherence in a thermal environment. It is found that the state can be considered as a squeezed two-variable Hermite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-19 Li-yun Hu , Xue-xiang , Hong-yi Fan

A general analysis of squeezing transformations for two mode systems is given based on the four dimensional real symplectic group $Sp(4,\Re)\/$. Within the framework of the unitary metaplectic representation of this group, a distinction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Arvind , B. Dutta , N. Mukunda , R. Simon

We propose a class of path-entangled photon Fock states for robust quantum optical metrology, imaging, and sensing in the presence of loss. We model propagation loss with beam-splitters and derive a reduced density matrix formalism from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-13 Sean D. Huver , Christoph F. Wildfeuer , Jonathan P. Dowling

Nonclassical properties of photon added and subtracted displaced Fock states have been studied using various witnesses of lower- and higher-order nonclassicality. Compact analytic expressions are obtained for the nonclassicality witnesses.…