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Physical Review A

Total noise and nonclassical states

Mark S. Hillery

Published Mar 1, 1989• 71 citations
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Abstract

The total noise of a field state is a measure of the fluctuations of the field amplitude. It is a minimum for coherent states. As the behavior of a state becomes more nonclassical, its total noise increases. This is shown first for several specific types of nonclassical states, among them squeezed and sub-Poissonian states. These results are generalized by using nonclassical distance to measure how nonclassical a field state is. A lower bound for the total noise is derived that is an increasing function of nonclassical distance. From it one can conclude that highly nonclassical states have large amplitude fluctuations.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.39.2994

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The nonclassical measures of nonclassical properties of radiation fields are proposed in parallel with those of the nonclassical states. It is shown that the nonclassical measures of sub-Poissonian photon statistics and squeezing are bounded below 1/21/21/2 and their physical implications are discussed in comparison with the nonclassical measures of states.
A squeezed state of light is usually taken to mean a state in which the fluctuations of one of the quadratures are below the level associated with a coherent or vacuum state. These squeezed fluctuations are phase sensitive in the sense that they vary periodically as the field evolves, but the relationship between squeezing and phase fluctuations is not trivial. While squeezed states can exhibit an arbitrarily low level of phase fluctuations, the phase states, which are eigenstates of the Hermitian optical phase operator are not themselves quadrature squeezed. A phasesqueezed state is one with a lower level of phase fluctuations than a coherent state with the same mean photon number. Phase squeezing is fundamentally different from quadrature squeezing in much the same way that sub-Poissonian photon statistics is different. For this reason optimally squeezed states and states with minimum phase noise will be distinct. We derive the form of the states which minimum phase noise for a given intensity. These have an Airy function behavior for the photon number probability distribution. These phase squeezed states have a far better phase resolution than coherent states of similar intensity, but do not seem to offer a significant reduction of phase fluctuations compared with conventional squeezed states.
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