Quantum-optical state engineering up to the two-photon level

By E. Bimbard, Nitin Jain, A. MacRae, Alexander I. Lvovsky. 2009

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Tailoring of arbitrary single-mode states of travelling light up to the two-photon level is proposed and demonstrated. The desired state is remotely prepared in the signal channel of spontaneous parametric down-conversion by means of conditional measurements on the idler channel.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Hybrid discrete- and continuous-variable quantum information (2014, background): “1d. Applications include generation of arbitrary superpositions of vacuum and a single [45–47] or multiple photons [48, 49] and kitten state superpositions [50].”
Quantum-enhanced measurements without entanglement (2017, unknown): “Alternatively, one can use superpositions of coherent states (Bimbard et al., 2010; Braginsky et al., 1995; Lund et al., 2004; NeergaardNielsen et al., 2006; Suzuki et al., 2006; Wakui et al., 2007; Yukawa et al., 2013), i.e. ”Schrödinger-cat” type states of the form (|α〉+ |−α〉)/ √ 2.”
Roadmap on quantum light spectroscopy (2020, background): “This important source [6, 7] of Fock states is a”
Experimental photonic quantum memristor (2021, background): “Despite offering an intuitive picture and a ready comparison across different quantum platforms, this type of encoding (also known as single-rail encoding) is highly impractical in linear optics [33, 34].”