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arXiv:2204.06358

Decoherence and nonclassicality of photon-added/subtracted multi-mode Gaussian states

Anaelle Hertz, Stephan De Bièvre

Published Apr 13, 2022• 1 citation
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Abstract

Photon addition and subtraction render Gaussian states non-Gaussian. We provide a quantitative analysis of the change in nonclassicality produced by these processes by analyzing the Wigner negativity and quadrature coherence scale (QCS) of the resulting states. The QCS is a recently introduced measure of nonclassicality [PRL 122, 080402 (2019), PRL 124, 090402 (2020)], that we show to undergo a relative increase under photon addition/subtraction that can be as large as 200\%. This implies that the degaussification and the concomitant increase of nonclassicality come at a cost. Indeed, the QCS is proportional to the decoherence rate of the state so that the resulting states are considerably more prone to environmental decoherence. Our results are quantitative and rely on explicit and general expressions for the characteristic and Wigner functions of photon added/subtracted single- and multi-mode Gaussian states for which we provide a simple and straightforward derivation. These expressions further allow us to certify the quantum non-Gaussianity of the photon-subtracted states with positive Wigner function.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2204.06358

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Photon addition and subtraction render Gaussian states non-Gaussian. We provide a quantitative analysis of the change in nonclassicality produced by these processes by analyzing the Wigner negativity and quadrature coherence scale (QCS) of the resulting states. The QCS is a recently introduced measure of nonclassicality [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 080402 (2019); Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 090402 (2020)], which we show to undergo a relative increase under photon addition and subtraction that can be as large as 200%. This implies that the degaussification and the concomitant increase of nonclassicality come at a cost. Indeed, the QCS is proportional to the decoherence rate of the state so that the resulting states are considerably more prone to environmental decoherence. Our results are quantitative and rely on explicit and general expressions for the characteristic and Wigner functions of photon-added and -subtracted single- and multimode Gaussian states for which we provide a simple and straightforward derivation. These expressions further allow us to certify the quantum non-Gaussianity of the photon-subtracted states with positive Wigner function.
Photon addition and subtraction are well-known to render Gaussian states non Gaussian. We evaluate how their optical nonclassicality is affected by the photon addition/subtraction process. It is known that photon addition always transforms a Gaussian state into a nonclassical state. We show that photon subtraction transforms classical states into classical ones and nonclassical ones into nonclassical ones. For a quantitative analysis of the resulting nonclassicality, we use a recently introduced nonclassicality witness, the quadrature coherence scale, and compute the relative nonclassicality gain of the single-photon added/subtracted Gaussian states with respect to the original Gaussian states. For arbitrary single-mode Gaussian states, we show that this relative gain can be substantial in both cases. Whereas the gain is always higher for photon-added states, it is only slightly so for a large parameter range and in particular in the limit of high squeezing, where both gains are identical. We also analyze the Wigner negative volume of the photon-added/subtracted states. Whereas photon-added Gaussian states are never Wigner positive, we show that single-mode photon-subtracted states are Wigner positive if and only if they are weakly nonclassical or classical. Our analysis relies on explicit and general expressions for the characteristic and Wigner functions of photon added/subtracted multi-mode Gaussian states that we obtain simply.
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The addition or subtraction of a photon from a Gaussian state of light is a versatile and experimentally feasible procedure to create non-Gaussian states. In multimode setups, these states manifest a wide range of phenomena when the photon is added or subtracted in a mode-tunable way. In this paper we derive the truncated correlations, which are multimode generalizations of cumulants, between quadratures in different modes as statistical signatures of these states. These correlations are then used to obtain the full multimode Wigner function, the properties of which are subsequently studied. In particular we investigate the effect of impurity in the subtraction or addition process and evaluate its impact on the negativity of the Wigner function. Finally, we elaborate on the generation of inherent entanglement through subtraction or addition of a photon from a pure squeezed vacuum.