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We construct the optimal 1 to 2 cloning transformation for the family of displaced thermal equilibrium states of a harmonic oscillator, with a fixed and known temperature. The transformation is Gaussian and it is optimal with respect to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-23 Madalin Guta , Keiji Matsumoto

A review of probability representation of quantum states in given for optical and photon number tomography approaches. Explicit connection of photon number tomogram with measurable by homodyne detector optical tomogram is obtained. New…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 O. V. Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

In continuous variable optical platforms, large-scale Gaussian cluster states have already been demonstrated, but non-Gaussian resources are essential to achieve universality and fault tolerance in measurement-based quantum computation.…

Non-Gaussian quantum states are critical resources in photonic quantum information processing, rendering their generation and characterization of increasing importance in quantum optics. In this work, we theoretically and numerically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Rhea P. Fernandes , Andrew J. Pizzimenti , Christos N. Gagatsos , Joseph M. Lukens

Full reconstruction of quantum states from measurement samples is often a prohibitively complex task, both in terms of the experimental setup and the scaling of the sample size with the system. This motivates the relatively easier task of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Clara Wassner , Jack Davis , Sacha Cerf , Ulysse Chabaud , Francesco Arzani

Boson-sampling has been presented as a simplified model for linear optical quantum computing. In the boson-sampling model, Fock states are passed through a linear optics network and sampled via number-resolved photodetection. It has been…

The impossibility of simultaneously cloning non-orthogonal states lies at the foundations of quantum theory. Even when allowing for approximation errors, cloning an arbitrary unknown pure state requires as many initial copies as needed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Nikhil Bansal , Matthias C. Caro , Gaurav Mahajan

Recent results have established dramatic advantages in learning properties of quantum states when a quantum computer is available to process or jointly measure multiple copies of the unknown quantum state. Learning tasks can be accomplished…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Spencer Dimitroff , John Kallaugher , Ashe Miller , Mohan Sarovar

Copying information is an elementary operation in classical information processing. However, copying seems rather different in the quantum regime. Since the discovery of the universal quantum cloning machine, much has been found from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Maruyama , P. L. Knight

The non-linearity of a conditional photon-counting measurement can be used to `de-Gaussify' a Gaussian state of light. Here we present and experimentally demonstrate a technique for photon number resolution using only homodyne detection. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-08 H. M. Chrzanowski , J. Bernu , B. M. Sparkes , B. Hage , A. P. Lund , T. C. Ralph , P. K. Lam , T. Symul

Continuous-variable (CV) photonic states are of increasing interest in quantum information science, bolstered by features such as deterministic resource state generation and error correction via bosonic codes. Data-efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Joseph C. Chapman , Joseph M. Lukens , Bing Qi , Raphael C. Pooser , Nicholas A. Peters

Quantum technologies, encompassing communication, computation, and metrology, rely on the generation and control of non-Gaussian states of light. These states enable secure quantum communication, fault-tolerant quantum computation, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Ozlem Erkilic , Aritra Das , Biveen Shajilal , Ping Koy Lam , Timothy C. Ralph , Syed M. Assad

Quantum non-Gaussian states of photons and phonons are conclusive and direct witnesses of higher-than-quadratic nonlinearities in optical and mechanical processes. Moreover, they are proven resources for quantum sensing, communication and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Lukáš Lachman , Radim Filip

We show that, there are physical means for cloning two non-orthogonal pure states which are secretly chosen from a certain set $% \$={ | \Psi_0 > , | \Psi_1 > }$. The states are cloned through a unitary evolution together with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Lu-Ming Duan , Guang-Can Guo

We investigate an optical scheme to conditionally engineer quantum states using a beam splitter, homodyne detection and a squeezed vacuum as an ancillar state. This scheme is efficient in producing non-Gaussian quantum states such as…

The impossibility of perfectly copying (or cloning) an arbitrary quantum state is one of the basic rules governing the physics of quantum systems. The processes that perform the optimal approximate cloning have been found in many cases.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Valerio Scarani , Sofyan Iblisdir , Nicolas Gisin , Antonio Acin

Proofs of the quantum advantage available in imaging or detecting objects under quantum illumination can rely on optimal measurements without specifying what they are. We use the continuous-variable Gaussian quantum information formalism to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Hao Yang , Wojciech Roga , Jonathan D. Pritchard , John Jeffers

Gaussian boson sampling exploits squeezed states to provide a highly efficient way to demonstrate quantum computational advantage. We perform experiments with 50 input single-mode squeezed states with high indistinguishability and squeezing…

We study the problem of universal quantum cloning -- taking several identical copies of a pure but unknown quantum state and producing further copies. While it is well known that it is impossible to perfectly reproduce the state, how well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-09 Alastair Kay

Cloning of observables, unlike standard cloning of states, aims at copying the information encoded in the statistics of a class of observables rather then on quantum states themselves. In such a process the emphasis is on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 Alessandro Ferraro , Matteo G A Paris