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Projective measurements of collective observables can be employed to herald the preparation of entangled states of quantum systems, and the resulting conditional dynamics is usually handled by stochastic master equation (SME) for small…

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In this letter, we present a simple and versatile scheme for enhancing the nonclassical properties of light states using only linear optics and photodetectors. By combining a coherent state $|\alpha\rangle$ and an arbitrary pure state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 E. P. Mattos , A. Vidiella-Barranco

In this paper, we investigate how to generate coherent squeezed like light using a nonlinear photonic crystal. Because the photonic crystal reduces the group velocity of the incident light, if it is composed of a material with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Hiroo Azuma

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 method for preparing mixed quantum states of arbitrary dimension $D$ ($D\geq2$) which are codified in the discretized transverse momentum and position of single photons, once they are sent through an aperture with $D$ slits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 J. J. M. Varga , L. Rebón , S. Ledesma , C. Iemmi

We derive a closed photo-counting formula, including noise counts and a finite quantum efficiency, for photon number resolving detectors based on on-off detectors. It applies to detection schemes such as array detectors and multiplexing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Sperling , W. Vogel , G. S. Agarwal

This paper proposes a machine learning method to characterize photonic states via a simple optical circuit and data processing of photon number distributions, such as photonic patterns. The input states consist of two coherent states used…

Squeezed Fock states, photon-subtracted squeezed states, and optical cat states are established non-Gaussian resources in continuous-variable quantum optics. Here we compare these known state families from a task-oriented perspective:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Boris Kiefer , Olivier Pfister

The production of conditional quantum states and quantum operations based on the result of measurement is now seen as a key tool in quantum information and metrology. We propose a new type of photon number detector. It functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Branczyk , Tobias J. Osborne , Alexei Gilchrist , T. C. Ralph

We propose a scheme to implement a single-mode quantum filter, which selectively eliminates the one-photon state in a quantum state $\alpha|0>+\beta|1>+\gamma|2>$. The vacuum state and the two photon state are transmitted without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 XuBo Zou , K. Pahlke , W. Mathis

We propose a high-rate generation method of optical Schr\"{o}dinger's cat states. Thus far, photon subtraction from squeezed vacuum states has been a standard method in cat-state generation, but its constraints on experimental parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Kan Takase , Jun-ichi Yoshikawa , Warit Asavanant , Mamoru Endo , Akira Furusawa

We describe a protocol capable of preparing an arbitrary state of two photons in several spatial modes using pairs of photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, linear optical elements and single-photon detectors or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karel Lemr , Jaromir Fiurasek

We study the precise phase estimation using squeezed states with photon losses present. Our exact quantum Fisher information calculation shows significant quantum enhancement and thus reveals the benchmark for practical quantum metrology in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Yu-Xiang Yang , Xiang-Bin Wang

We investigate coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in quantum optics, in particular when pairs of squeezed coherent states of light are superposed on an absorbing beam splitter. First, by employing quantum optical input-output relations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Martijn Wubs

The Schr\"odinger cat (SC) states are important in quantum optics because of their non-Gaussian properties. We propose a novel method of conditional generation of bright (multi-photon) SC states that uses degenerate parametric…

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We theoretically demonstrate a method for producing the maximally path-entangled state (1/Sqrt[2]) (|N,0> + exp[iN phi] |0,N>) using intensity-symmetric multiport beamsplitters, single photon inputs, and either photon-counting postselection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. J. Pryde , A. G. White

We present the generation of approximated coherent state superpositions - referred to as Schr\"odinger cat states - by the process of subtracting single photons from picosecond pulsed squeezed states of light at 830 nm. The squeezed vacuum…

Disposing of simple and efficient sources for photonic states with non-classical photon statistics is of paramount importance for implementing quantum computation and communication protocols. In this work, we propose an innovative approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. F. Melalkia , J. Huynh , S. Tanzilli , V. D'Auria , J. Etesse

Optomechanical systems typically use light to control the quantum state of a mechanical resonator. In this paper, we propose a scheme for controlling the quantum state of light using the mechanical degree of freedom as a controlled beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Sahar Basiri-Esfahani , Casey R Myers , Joshua Combes , G. J. Milburn

The certificate of success for a number of important quantum information processing protocols, such as entanglement distillation, is based on the difference in the entanglement content of the quantum states before and after the protocol. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Puentes , A. Datta , A. Feito , J. Eisert , M. B. Plenio , I. A. Walmsley