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We present what is to our knowledge the first implementation of a Schr\"odinger cat states "breeding" operation, which allows an iterative growth of these states. We thus report the experimental generation of a squeezed Schr\"odinger cat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Jean Etesse , Martin Bouillard , Bhaskar Kanseri , Rosa Tualle-Brouri

The observation of genuine quantum features of nano-mechanical motion is a key goal for both fundamental and applied quantum science. To this end, a promising approach is the stabilization of nonclassical features in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Matteo Brunelli , Oussama Houhou

We consider a class of states in an ensemble of two-level atoms: a superposition of two distinct atomic coherent states, which can be regarded as atomic analogues of the states usually called Schrodinger cat states in quantum optics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. G. Benedict , A. Czirjak

Photon subtraction from squeezed states is a powerful scheme to create good approximation of so-called Schr\"odinger cat states. However, conventional continuous-wave-based methods actually involve some impurity in squeezing of localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Jun-ichi Yoshikawa , Warit Asavanant , Akira Furusawa

Single photons are very useful resources in quantum information science. In real applications it is often required that the photons have a well-defined spectral (or equivalently temporal) modal structure. For example, a rising exponential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Zhiyuan Dong , Lei Cui , Guofeng Zhang , Hongchen Fu

The ability of matter to be superposed at two different locations while being intrinsically connected by a quantum phase is among the most counterintuitive predictions of quantum physics. While such superpositions have been created for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 D. Kienzler , C. Flühmann , V. Negnevitsky , H. -Y. Lo , M. Marinelli , D. Nadlinger , J. P. Home

Entangled coherent states (ECS) provide a powerful non-Gaussian resource for continuous-variable quantum communication, but their generation in scalable architectures remains challenging. We propose an integrated photonic scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ananga Mohan Datta , William J. Munro , Nicolo Lo Piparo , Kae Nemoto

The addition of a photon into the same mode as a coherent state produces a nonclassical state that has interesting features, including quadrature squeezing and a sub-Poissonian photon-number distribution. The squeezed nature of photon-added…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 J. T. Francis , M. S. Tame

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

Conditional Measurement scheme which employs linear optical elements and photon detection is the fertile ground for nonclassical state generation. We consider a simple setup that requires a coherent state and a number state as inputs of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Devibala Esakkimuthu , Basherrudin Mahmud Ahmed A

We consider a microscopy setting where quantum light is used for illumination. Spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) is used as a source of a heralded single photon, which is quantum light prepared in a Fock state. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Maria Gieysztor , Joshua Nepinak , Christopher J. Pugh , Piotr Kolenderski

We demonstrate that the Wasserstein distance $W_{1}$ corresponding to optical tomograms of nonclassical states faithfully captures changes that arise due to photon addition to, or subtraction from, these states. $W_{1}$ is a true measure of…

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

Non-Gaussian states are essential for achieving a quantum advantage in continuous-variable (CV) information processing. Among these, coherent superpositions of squeezed states are a foundational resource. While exact higher-order statistics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Arash Azizi

Cat states, with their unique phase-space interference properties, are ideal candidates for understanding fundamental principles of quantum mechanics and performing key quantum information processing tasks. However, they are highly…

We study the application of squeezed states in a quantum optical scheme for direct sampling of the phase space by photon counting. We prove that the detection setup with a squeezed coherent probe field is equivalent to the probing of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Konrad Banaszek , Krzysztof Wodkiewicz

We investigate the utility of non classical states of simple harmonic oscillators (a superposition of coherent states) for sensitive force detection. We find that like squeezed states a superposition of coherent states allows the detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kae Nemoto , W. J. Munro , G. J. Milburn , S. L. Braunstein

The Wigner function of the compass state (a superposition of four coherent states) develops phase-space structures of dimension much less than the Planck scale, which are crucial in determining the sensitivity of these states to phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Naeem Akhtar , Jizhou Wu , Jia-Xin Peng , Wu-Ming Liu , Gao Xianlong

The interest in quantum-optical states confined in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces has recently been stimulated by the progress in quantum computing, quantum-optical state preparation, and measurement techniques, in particular, by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Miranowicz , Wieslaw Leonski , Nobuyuki Imoto

Fock states with a well-defined number of photons in an oscillator have shown a wide range of applications in quantum information science. Nonetheless, their usefulness has been marred by single and multiple photon losses due to unavoidable…

We study several classical like properties of q-deformed nonlinear coherent states as well as nonclassical behaviours of q-deformed version of the Schrodinger cat states in noncommutative space. Coherent states in q-deformed space are found…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sanjib Dey