Creation, Storage, and On-Demand Release of Optical Quantum States with a Negative Wigner Function

Highly nonclassical quantum states of light, characterized by Wigner functions with negative values, have been all-optically created so far only in a heralded fashion. In this case, the desired output emerges rarely and randomly from a quantum-state generator. An important example is the heralded pr...

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Main Authors: Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Kenzo Makino, Shintaro Kurata, Peter van Loock, Akira Furusawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2013-12-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041028