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Physical Review A

Controlled hole burning in the Fock space via conditional measurements on beam splitters

Bruno M. Escher, Ardiley Torres Avelar, T. M. Rocha Filho, B. Baseia

Published Aug 11, 2004• 40 citations
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Abstract

We present a simple method to generate controlled holes in the statistical distribution of quantized electromagnetic fields. This scheme extends previous approaches for the cavity field to a traveling one. It relies on combining a coherent state with a one-photon state, both impinging a single beam splitter plus a single detector.
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10.1103/physreva.70.025801

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