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Displacement operator by beam splitter

Matteo G. A. Paris
- 08 Jul 1996 - 
- Vol. 217, Iss: 2, pp 78-80
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In this article, it was shown that the action of the displacement operator D^(z) = exp(za − z¯a) on any quantum state of the radiation field can be well approximated by a beam splitter whose second port is fed by a highly excited coherent state.
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This article is published in Physics Letters A.The article was published on 1996-07-08. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Displacement operator & Coherent states.

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Multiphoton quantum optics and quantum state engineering

TL;DR: A review of theoretical and experimental aspects of multiphoton quantum optics can be found in this paper, where the authors focus on parametric processes in nonlinear media, with special emphasis on the engineering of nonclassical states of photons and atoms that are relevant for the conceptual investigations and for the practical applications of modern quantum mechanics.
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Multiphoton Quantum Optics and Quantum State Engineering

TL;DR: A review of theoretical and experimental aspects of multiphoton quantum optics can be found in this paper, where the authors concentrate their attention on parametric processes in nonlinear media, with special emphasis on the engineering of nonclassical states of photons and atoms.
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Recent developments in photon-level operations on travelling light fields

Myungshik Kim
- 14 Jul 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the relevance of these operations to some of the fundamental aspects of quantum physics and recent advances in this research and present a tutorial on how to generate a photonic state at will.
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Blueprint for a Scalable Photonic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer

TL;DR: The proposed architecture enables exploiting state-of-the-art procedures for the non-deterministic generation of bosonic qubits combined with the strengths of continuous-variable quantum computation, namely the implementation of Clifford gates using easy-to-generate squeezed states.
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II Homodyne Detection and Quantum-State Reconstruction

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the experimental schemes that have been considered for quantum-state measurement on optical fields, with special emphasis on optical homodyning, and discussed the typical methods for reconstruction of quantum state representations and specific quantum-statistical properties of optical fields.
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Quantum Theory Of Angular Momemtum

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a collection of useful formulas besides those related to angular momentum, and compare different notations used by previous authors, and present results relating to different aspects of the angular momentum theory.
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Two-photon coherent states of the radiation field

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of two-photon coherent states is introduced for applications in quantum optics, which is a simple generalization of the well-known minimum-uncertainty wave packets.
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