Generating photon-added states without adding a photon
arXiv:1908.08028 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.100.043802
Abstract
We show that a continuous range of nonclassical states of light can be generated using conditional measurements on the idler mode of an optical parametric amplifier. The output state is prepared by introducing a coherent state in the signal mode of the amplifier with a single photon in the idler mode, followed by a conditional measurement of a single photon in the output idler mode. By varying the gain of the amplifier, this approach can produce a coherent state, a photon-added state, a displaced number state, or a continuous range of other nonclassical states with intermediate properties. We note that this approach can generate a photon-added state even though the post-selected amplifier does not add any photons to the signal or idler modes. The ability to generate a continuous range of nonclassical states may have practical applications in quantum information processing.
11 pages, 9 figures
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