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Modern Physics Letters B

Orthogonal state of coherent state based on Hermite-excited superposition operator: Production and Wigner function

Jian-Ming Wang, Zujian Wang, Hong‐Chun Yuan, Xue-xiang Xu

Published Aug 23, 2019• 2 citations
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Abstract

An orthogonal state of coherent state is produced by applying an orthogonalizer related with Hermite-excited superposition operator [Formula: see text]. Using some technique, we cleverly deal with the normalization and discuss the nonclassical and non-Gaussian characters of the orthogonal state. The analytical expressions for the Wigner functions of the orthogonal state are derived in detail. Numerical results show that the orthogonal state will exhibit its richly nonclassical and non-Gaussian character by changing the interaction parameters.

DOI
10.1142/s0217984919503202

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Abstract In this paper, we investigate the nonclassicality and non-Gaussianity of a coherent superposed quantum state (CSQS) which is obtained by applying a coherent superposition of field annihilation (a) and creation ( a † ) operators, N ( t a + r a † ) to a classical coherent state | α ⟩ , where t and r are scalars with t 2 + r 2 = 1 . Such an operation, when applied on states having classical characters, introduces strong nonclassicality. We use different criteria to check the nonclassicality and non-Gaussianity of the considered quantum state. We first compute the Wigner function of CSQS. To study the nonclassicality of the considered state we further use (a) linear entropy (b) Wigner logarithmic negativity and (c) skew information based measure. Relative entropy based measure is considered to analyze the variation in non-Gaussianity of CSQS. Finally, the dynamics of the Wigner function evolving under the photon loss channel is addressed to probe the effect of noise on nonclassicality as well as non-Gaussianity of CSQS.
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