Monday, July 2, 2012

1206.7057 (M. Jezek et al.)

Experimental test of strongly non-classical character of a noisy
squeezed single-photon state
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M. Jezek, A. Tipsmark, R. Dong, J. Fiurasek, L. Mista Jr, R. Filip, U. L. Andersen
We experimentally verify the quantum non-Gaussian character of a conditionally generated noisy squeezed single-photon state with 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 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.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.7057

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