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arXiv:1203.2974 · Physical Review A

Towards higher precision and operational use of optical homodyne tomograms

Marco Bellini, A. S. Coelho, Sergey N. Filippov, Vladimir I. Man’ko, Alessandro Zavatta

Published May 31, 2012• 58 citations
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Abstract

We present the results of an operational use of experimentally measured optical tomograms to determine state characteristics (purity) avoiding any reconstruction of quasiprobabilities. We also develop a natural way how to estimate the errors (including both statistical and systematic ones) by an analysis of the experimental data themselves. Precision of the experiment can be increased by postselecting the data with minimal (systematic) errors. We demonstrate those techniques by considering coherent and photon-added coherent states measured via the time-domain improved homodyne detection. The operational use and precision of the data allowed us to check purity-dependent uncertainty relations and uncertainty relations for Shannon and R\'enyi entropies.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.85.052129

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The travelling modes of single-photon-added coherent states (SPACS) are characterized by using optical homodyne tomography. Given a set of experimentally measured quadrature distributions, we estimate parameters of the state and also extract information about the detector efficiency. The method used is minimal distance estimation between theoretical and experimental quantities, which additionally allows to evaluate the precision of the estimated parameters. Given the experimental data, we also estimate the lower and upper bounds on fidelity. The results are believed to encourage a more precise engineering and detection of SPACS.
The reliable quantification of nonclassicality in quantum states under realistic decoherence remains a central challenge in advancing quantum technologies. Conventional quantifiers such as Wigner negativity, Mandel's QQQ-parameter, nonclassical depth, etc., are often experimentally intractable, non-unique, or insensitive to key quantum signatures. We demonstrate that tomogram-based measures, the homodyne nonclassical area and sum tomographic entropy, offer a robust, experimentally accessible alternative for quantifying nonclassicality dynamics, as they can be directly obtained from optical tomograms via balanced homodyne detection, avoiding density matrix reconstruction and ensuring feasibility. We study coherent, photon-added coherent, and even coherent states evolving in Kerr and cubic nonlinear systems, with environmental effects modelled using the Lindblad master equation under amplitude and phase damping. The homodyne nonclassical area, which quantifies the excess quadrature variance beyond that of a coherent state, tracks both the onset and decay of nonclassicality, clearly identifying fractional revivals, wave packet splitting, and macroscopic superpositions. We find that amplitude damping drives a rapid monotonic decay toward the vacuum, while phase damping allows partial revival features to survive longer. Complementing this, the sum tomographic entropy derived from conjugate-quadrature tomograms captures higher-order fractional revivals and phase-space interference through persistent entropy minima under weak damping. Our results establish homodyne-based quantifiers as powerful, real-time, and experimentally viable tools for tracking nonclassical dynamics in nonlinear optical media, offering a compelling alternative to conventional, experimentally challenging measures.