Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2009-02-17
Phys. Rev. A 80, 013820 (2009)
Physics
Quantum Physics
14 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
We present a general model to account for the multimode nature of the quantum electromagnetic field in projective photon-counting measurements. We focus on photon-subtraction experiments, where non-gaussian states are produced conditionally. These are useful states for continuous-variable quantum information processing. We present a general method called mode reduction that reduces the multimode model to an effective two-mode problem. We apply this method to a multimode model describing broadband parametric downconversion, thereby improving the analysis of existing experimental results. The main improvement is that spatial and frequency filters before the photon detector are taken into account explicitly. We find excellent agreement with previously published experimental results, using fewer free parameters than before, and discuss the implications of our analysis for the optimized production of states with negative Wigner functions.
Dantan Aurelien
Grangier Philippe
Ourjoumtsev Alexei
Sorensen Anders Sondberg
Tualle-Brouri Rosa
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