Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
1999-05-25
Physics
Quantum Physics
6 pages, 3 figures, contribution to proceedings of the 6th central-european workshop on quantum optics
Scientific paper
The generation of arbitrary single-mode quantum states from the vacuum by alternate coherent displacement and photon adding as well as the measurement of the overlap of a signal with an arbitrarily chosen quantum state are studied. With regard to implementations, the transformation of the quantum state of a traveling optical field at an array of beam splitters is considered, using conditional measurement. Allowing for arbitrary quantum states of both the input reference modes and the output reference modes on which the measurements are performed, the setup is described within the concept of two-port non-unitary transformation, and the overall non-unitary transformation operator is derived. It is shown to be a product of operators, where each operator is assigned to one of the beam splitters and can be expressed in terms of an s-ordered operator product, with s being determined by the beam splitter transmittance or reflectance. As an example we discuss the generation of and overlap measurement with Schroedinger-cat-like states.
Clausen Jens
Dakna M.
Knoell Ludwig
Welsch Dirk-Gunnar
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