Nonclassicality of states and measurements by breaking classical bounds on statistics

We derive exceedingly simple practical procedures revealing the quantum nature of states and measurements by the violation of classical upper bounds on the statistics of arbitrary measurements. Data analysis is minimum, and definite conclusions are obtained without evaluation of moments or any other...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Rivas, Ángel, Luis Aina, Alfredo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44649
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44649
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:535
Schrodinger cat states
Coherent states
Quantum optics
Superposition
Decoherence
Tomography
Cavity
Field
Detectors
Criterion
Óptica (Física)
2209.19 Óptica Física
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Sumario:We derive exceedingly simple practical procedures revealing the quantum nature of states and measurements by the violation of classical upper bounds on the statistics of arbitrary measurements. Data analysis is minimum, and definite conclusions are obtained without evaluation of moments or any other more sophisticated procedures. These nonclassical tests are independent of other typical quantum signatures such as sub-Poissonian statistics, quadrature squeezing, or oscillatory statistics. This approach can be equally well applied to very diverse situations such as single- and two-mode fields, observables with continuous and discrete spectra, finite- and infinite-dimensional systems, and ideal and noisy measurements.