Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-12-09
Phys. Rev. A 78, 063811 (2008)
Physics
Quantum Physics
8 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.063811
We study how photon addition and subtraction can be used to generate squeezed superpositions of coherent states in free-traveling fields (SSCSs) with high fidelities and large amplitudes. It is shown that an arbitrary $N$-photon subtraction results in the generation of a SSCS with nearly the perfect fidelity ($F>0.999$) regardless of the number of photons subtracted. In this case, the amplitude of the SSCS increases as the number of the subtracted photons gets larger. For example, two-photon subtraction from a squeezed vacuum state of 6.1dB can generate a SSCS of $\alpha=1.26$, while in the case of the four-photon subtraction a SSCS of a larger amplitude $\alpha=1.65$ is obtained under the same condition. When a photon is subtracted from a squeezed vacuum state and another photon is added subsequently, a SSCS with a lower fidelity ($F\approx 0.96$) yet higher amplitude ($\alpha\approx2$) can be generated. We analyze some experimental imperfections including inefficiency of the detector used for the photon subtraction.
Jeong Halyun
Kim Min-Soo
Marek Pavel
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