Generating Schrödinger-cat-like states by means of conditional measurements on a beam splitter

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 3184-3194

  Dakna, M ^a   Anhut, T ^a   Opatrny T ^a   Knoll L ^a   Welsch, D G ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; VACUUM;

HUSIMI FUNCTIONS; PHOTOCOUNTING; PHOTODETECTION; PHOTON NUMBER; QUADRATURE COMPONENT DISTRIBUTIONS; SCHRODINGER CAT LIKE STATES; SUPERPOSITION; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0031124270     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.3184     Document Type: Article

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