Experimental test of the strongly nonclassical character of a noisy squeezed single-photon state
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2012
We experimentally verify the quantum non-Gaussian character of a conditionally generated noisy squeezed single-photon state with a positive Wigner function. Employing an optimized witness based on probabilities of squeezed vacuum and squeezed single-photon states, we prove that the state cannot be expressed as a mixture of Gaussian states. In our experiment, the non-Gaussian state is generated by conditional subtraction of a single photon from a squeezed vacuum state. The state is probed with a homodyne detector and the witness is determined by averaging a suitable pattern function over the measured homodyne data. Our experimental results are in good agreement with a theoretical fit obtained from a simple yet realistic model of the experimental setup.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Journal number | 4 |
| Pages | 043813 |
| ISSN | 1050-2947 |
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| State | Published |
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©2012 American Physical Society
| Citations | Web of Science® Times Cited: 2 |
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