Construction of the Superposition of Displaced Fock States and Entangled Displaced Fock States

In this paper, at first we will construct the superposition of two displaced Fock states and two-mode entangled displaced Fock states mathematically by presenting theoretical methods. In these methods, we will introduce new operators using the parity and displacement operators. It will be observed that the superposition of two displaced Fock states and two-mode entangled displaced Fock states are constructed via the action of the introduced operators on one-mode and two-mode Fock states, respectively. Next, we will show that the presented methods have the potential ability to produce the superposition consist of more than two displaced Fock states and multi-mode entangled displaced Fock states, too.     

Generalized Photon Added and Subtracted f-Deformed Displaced Fock States

In this paper, by making use of the nonlinear coherent states approach, the generalized photon added and subtracted f-deformed displaced Fock states are introduced. In other words, a natural link between photon added and subtracted displaced Fock states and nonlinear coherent states associated with nonlinear oscillator algebra is obtained. It is found that various kinds of nonclassical states can be generated by adopting appropriately controlling parameters in both linear and nonlinear regimes. Moreover, examining some of the most nonclassical properties such as Mandel's Q parameter, different types of squeezing, namely, quadrature, amplitude–squared and phase entropic squeezing, and Vogel's characteristic function, the nonclassicality features of the considered quantum states of interest are studied. Furthermore, to obtain the degree of quantum coherence, the relative entropy of coherence is investigated. Indeed, the nonclassicality aspects of the states obtained have been numerically studied to understand the roles of deformation functions, photons added and subtracted, and photon number occupied in the Fock state on physical properties. It is demonstrated that the depth and the domain of the nonclassicality features of the system can properly be controlled by selecting the suitable parameters.     

Quantum Phase Properties of Photon Added and Subtracted Displaced Fock States

Quantum phase properties of photon added and subtracted displaced Fock states (and their limiting cases) are investigated from a number of perspectives, and it is shown that the quantum phase properties are dependent on the quantum state engineering operations performed. Specifically, the analytic expressions for quantum phase distributions and angular Q distribution as well as measures of quantum phase fluctuation and phase dispersion are obtained. The uniform phase distribution of the initial Fock states is observed to be transformed by the unitary operation (i.e., displacement operator) into non‐Gaussian shape, except for the initial vacuum state. It is observed that the phase distribution is symmetric with respect to the phase of the displacement parameter and becomes progressively narrower as its amplitude increases. The non‐unitary (photon addition/subtraction) operations make it even narrower in contrast to the Fock parameter, which leads to broadness. The photon subtraction is observed to be a more powerful quantum state engineering tool in comparison to the photon addition. Further, one of the quantum phase fluctuation parameters is found to reveal the existence of antibunching in both the engineered quantum states under consideration. Finally, the relevance of the engineered quantum states in the quantum phase estimation is also discussed.     

Classical analogue of displaced Fock states and quantum correlations in Glauber-Fock photonic lattices

Coherent states and their generalizations, displaced Fock states, are of fundamental importance to quantum optics. Here we present a direct observation of a classical analogue for the emergence of these states from the eigenstates of the harmonic oscillator. To this end, the light propagation in a Glauber-Fock waveguide lattice serves as equivalent for the displacement of Fock states in phase space. Theoretical calculations and analogue classical experiments show that the square-root distribution of the coupling parameter in such lattices supports a new family of intriguing quantum correlations not encountered in uniform arrays. Because of the broken shift invariance of the lattice, these correlations strongly depend on the transverse position. Consequently, quantum random walks with this extra degree of freedom may be realized in Glauber-Fock lattices.     

Enhancement of Non-Gaussianity and Nonclassicality of Photon-Added Displaced Fock State: A Quantitative Approach

Non-Gaussian and nonclassical states and processes are already found to be important resources for performing various tasks related to quantum gravity and quantum information processing. Considering these facts, a quantitative analysis of the nonclassical and non-Gaussian features is performed here for photon added displaced Fock state, as a test case, using a set of measures, namely entanglement potential, Wigner–Yanese skew information, Wigner logarithmic negativity, and relative entropy of non-Gaussianity. It is observed that Fock parameter always increases the amount of nonclassicality and non-Gaussianity, while photon addition is effective only for small values of the displacement parameter. Further, the nonclassical and non-Gaussian effects decrease initially with an increase in the displacement parameter before increasing for the large displacement to saturate to the corresponding Fock state (equivalently displaced Fock state) value. Finally, dynamics of the Wigner function under the effect of photon loss channel is used to show that only highly efficient detectors are able to detect Wigner negativity.     

Quantum Fisher information width in quantum metrology

In scenarios of quantum metrology, the unitary parametrization process often depends on space directions. How to characterize the sensitivity of parameter estimation to space directions is a natural question. We propose the concept of the quantum Fisher information(QFI) width, which is the difference between the maximum and minimum values of the QFI, to quantitatively study the sensitivity. We find that Fock states, the bosonic coherent states, and the displaced Fock states all have zero widths, indicating that QFI is completely inert over all directions, while the width for the spin state with all spins down or up is equal to the number of particles, so this concept will enable us to choose appropriate directions to make unitary transformation to obtain larger QFI.The QFI width of the displaced quantum states is found to be independent of the magnitude of the displacement for both spin and bosonic systems. We also find some relations between the QFI width and squeezing parameters.     

De-Gaussification by inconclusive photon subtraction

We address conditional de-Gaussiflcation of continuous variable states by inconclusive photon subtraction (IPS) and review in detail its application to the bipartite twin-beam state of radiation. The IPS map in the Fock basis and counterpart in the phase space have been derived. Teleportation assisted by IPS states is analyzed, and the corresponding fidelity is evaluated as a function of the involved parameters. Nonlocality of IPS states is investigated by means of different tests, including displaced parity, homodyne detection, pseudospin, and displaced on/off photodetection. Dissipation and thermal noise and nonunit quantum efficiency are taken into account in the detection stage. We show that the IPS process, for a suitable choice of the involved parameters, improves teleportation fidelity and enhances nonlocal properties.     

Digital Quantum Simulation and Circuit Learning for the Generation of Coherent States

Coherent states, known as displaced vacuum states, play an important role in quantum information processing, quantum machine learning, and quantum optics. In this article, two ways to digitally prepare coherent states in quantum circuits are introduced. First, we construct the displacement operator by decomposing it into Pauli matrices via ladder operators, i.e., creation and annihilation operators. The high fidelity of the digitally generated coherent states is verified compared with the Poissonian distribution in Fock space. Secondly, by using Variational Quantum Algorithms, we choose different ansatzes to generate coherent states. The quantum resources—such as numbers of quantum gates, layers and iterations—are analyzed for quantum circuit learning. The simulation results show that quantum circuit learning can provide high fidelity on learning coherent states by choosing appropriate ansatzes.     

Lower‐ and Higher‐Order Nonclassical Properties of Photon Added and Subtracted Displaced Fock States

Nonclassical properties of photon added and subtracted displaced Fock states are studied using various witnesses of lower‐ and higher‐order nonclassicality. Compact analytic expressions are obtained for the nonclassicality witnesses. Using those expressions, it is established that these states and the states that can be obtained as their limiting cases (except coherent states) are highly nonclassical as they show the existence of lower‐ and higher‐order antibunching and sub‐Poissonian photon statistics, in addition to the nonclassical features revealed through the Mandel $Q_M$ parameter, zeros of Q function, Klyshko's criterion, and Agarwal–Tara criterion. Further, some comparison between the nonclassicality of photon added and subtracted displaced Fock states have been performed using witnesses of nonclassicality. This has established that between the two types of non‐Gaussianity inducing operations (i.e., photon addition and subtraction) used here, photon addition influences the nonclassical properties more strongly. Further, optical designs for the generation of photon added and subtracted displaced Fock states from squeezed vacuum state have also been proposed.     

Generation and Properties of a Superposition of Four Displaced Fock States

A detailed discussion of a type of four-component superposition of displaced Fock states (DFSs) is presented. A generation scheme is proposed for these states. The s-parameterized characteristic function (CF) and the quasiprobability distribution functions (QDFs) of these states are calculated. The nonclassical properties of these states such as photon number distribution and squeezing are discussed. The quadrature distributions are illustrated. The Pegg–Barnett phase distribution is discussed.     

Quantum interference between a single-photon Fock state and a coherent state

We derive analytical expressions for the single mode quantum field state at the individual output ports of a beam splitter when a single-photon Fock state and a coherent state are incident on the input ports. The output states turn out to be a statistical mixture between a displaced Fock state and a coherent state. Consequently we are able to find an analytical expression for the corresponding Wigner function. Because of the generality of our calculations the obtained results are valid for all passive and lossless optical four port devices. We show further how the results can be adapted to the case of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. In addition we consider the case for which the single-photon Fock state is replaced with a general input state: a coherent input state displaces each general quantum state at the output port of a beam splitter with the displacement parameter being the amplitude of the coherent state.     

Von Neumann entropy and entropy squeezing of a two-level atom and the superposition of squeezed displaced fock states

The work presents some aspects of studying the two-level atom in a Kerr media interacting with a single-mode electromagnetic field, which is the superposition of squeezed displaced Fock states. We discuss the effect of the new field on quantum entropy and the entanglement of the atom-field system in the two-photon process. The exact results are employed to perform a careful investigation of the temporal entropy evolution. The position and momentum entropy squeezing of the optical field are investigated. The general conclusions obtained are illustrated by numerical results.     

Connes distance of 2D harmonic oscillators in quantum phase space

We study the Connes distance of quantum states of two-dimensional (2D) harmonic oscillators in phase space. Using the Hilbert-Schmidt operatorial formulation, we construct a boson Fock space and a quantum Hilbert space, and obtain the Dirac operator and a spectral triple corresponding to a four-dimensional (4D) quantum phase space. Based on the ball condition, we obtain some constraint relations about the optimal elements. We construct the corresponding optimal elements and then derive the Connes distance between two arbitrary Fock states of 2D quantum harmonic oscillators. We prove that these two-dimensional distances satisfy the Pythagoras theorem. These results are significant for the study of geometric structures of noncommutative spaces, and it can also help us to study the physical properties of quantum systems in some kinds of noncommutative spaces.     

位移二项式态与位移负二项式态的性质及其与二能级原子的相互作用

提出并研究两种新的量子光场态：位移二项式态和位移负二项式态．讨论了两种量子态的光子数分布、亚泊松分布特性．结果表明：位移二项式态是介于相干态与位移粒子数态之间的一种量子中间态，在不同参数下可表现亚泊松分布和超泊松分布；位移负二项式态是介于相干态与位移Susking Glogower位相态之间的量子中间态，它只表现超泊松分布．研究了它们与二能级原子在强度耦合情况下相互作用原子反转的动力学演化. 关键词：     

Exact broken-symmetry states and Hartree–Fock solutions for quantum dots at high magnetic fields

Wigner molecules formed at high magnetic fields in circular and elliptic quantum dots are studied by exact diagonalization (ED) and unrestricted Hartree–Fock (UHF) methods with multicenter basis of displaced lowest Landau level wave functions. The broken symmetry states with semi-classical charge density constructed from superpositions of the ED solutions are compared to the UHF results. UHF overlooks the dependence of the few-electron wave functions on the actual relative positions of electrons localized in different charge puddles and partially compensates for this neglect by an exaggerated separation of charge islands which are more strongly localized than in the exact broken-symmetry states.     

Generation of a displaced qubit and entangled displaced photon state via conditional measurement and their properties

We study optical schemes for generating both a displaced photon and a displaced qubit via conditional measurement. Combining one mode prepared in different microscopic states (one-mode qubit, single photon, vacuum state) and another mode in macroscopic states (coherent state, single photon added coherent state), a conditional state in the other output mode exhibits properties of a superposition of the displaced vacuum and a single photon. We propose to use the displaced qubit and entangled states composed of the displaced photon as components for quantum information processing. Basic states of such a qubit are distinguishable from each other with high fidelity. We show that the qubit reveals both microscopic and macroscopic properties. Entangled displaced states with a coherent phase as an additional degree of freedom are introduced. We show that additional degree of freedom enables to implement complete Bell state measurement of the entangled displaced photon states.     

High energy hadronic multiplicity distributions in presence of noisy squeezing and noisy displaced Fock states

In the frame of quantum statistics the production of hadrons is considered from noisy squeezed and (separately) noisy displaced Fock states. It is shown that at high energies when the KNO asymptotics (or its appropriate extension) is applied, both corresponding multiplicity distributions can be expressed in terms of the KNO variables and parameters (or their extensions). While the parameters characterizing displacement of the Fock states enter the final, closed expressions, the rôle of the squeezing is exhibited by terms expressing disturbances to the unsqueezed case. The last fact arises due to the appearance of the hypergeometric functions of two and more variables whose fundamental properties are not well-known, so far. Multiplicity distributions derived in the present paper as well as their extensions open a new region for interpreting the experimental data.Work supported in part by CEE under the contract No. ERB-CIP A-CT-92-2266.On leave in absence from the Institute of Physics, Slovak Acad. Sci., 84228 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.Results included into the present paper were obtained during the author's stay at the Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Torino. the author acknowledges nice conditions for his work created mainly by Professors C. Rossetti and A. Giovannini, as well as S. Lupia. The work was performed in frame of the contract CEE No. ERB-CIP A-CT-92-2266.     

Linear amplifier via the displaced Fock states superposition

The linear amplifier with the superposition of displaced Fock states (DFS’s) as an input field is discussed. The s-parameterized characteristic function (CF) of linear amplifier for the superposition of two DFS’s is considered. Several quantum statistical expectation values for the output of linear amplifier are evaluated once the time dependent CF has been computed. The Glauber secondorder coherence function is calculated. The squeezing properties of the output field are studied. The s-ordered quasiprobability distribution function (QDF) for the output of linear amplifier driven by DFS’s superposition is investigated. The phase properties of the superposition of DFS’s are studied. The s-parameterized phase distribution, obtained by integrating the s-parameterized QDF over radial variable is illustrated.     

Continuous variable quantum teleportation with sculptured and noisy non-Gaussian resources

We investigate continuous variable (CV) quantum teleportation using relevant classes of non-Gaussian states of the radiation field as entangled resources. First, we introduce the class two-mode squeezed symmetric superposition of Fock states, including finite truncations of twin-beam Gaussian states as special realizations. These states depend on a set of free independent parameters that can be adjusted for the optimization of teleportation protocols, with an enhancement of the success probability of teleportation both for coherent and Fock input states. We show that the optimization procedure reduces the entangled resources to truncated twin beam states, which thus represents an optimal class of non-Gaussian resources for quantum teleportation. We then introduce a further class of two-mode non-Gaussian entangled resources, in the form of squeezed cat-like states. We analyze the performance and the properties of such states when optimized for (CV) teleportation, and compare them to the optimized squeezed Bell-like states introduced in a previous work [12]. We discuss how optimal resources for teleportation are characterized by a suitable balance of entanglement content and squeezed vacuum affinity. We finally investigate the effects of thermal noise on the efficiency of quantum teleportation. To this aim, a convenient framework is to describe noisy entangled resources as linear superpositions of non-Gaussian state and thermal states. Although the presence of the thermal component strongly reduces the teleportation fidelity, noisy non-Gaussian states remain preferred resources when compared to noisy twin-beam Gaussian states.