Creation of nonclassical states of light in a chiral waveguide

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  • Kevin Kleinbeck
  • Hannes Busche
  • Nina Stiesdal
  • Sebastian Hofferberth
  • Mølmer, Klaus
  • Hans Peter Buechler

Creating nonclassical states of light from simple quantum systems together with classical resources is a challenging problem. We show how chiral emitters under a coherent drive can generate nonclassical photon states. For our analysis, we select a specific temporal mode in the transmitted light field, resulting in a coupled master equation for the relevant mode and the chiral emitters. We characterize the mode's state by its Wigner function and show that the emission from the system predominantly produces mixtures of few-photon-added coherent states. We argue that these nonclassical states are experimentally accessible and show their application for quantum metrology.

Original languageEnglish
Article number013717
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume107
Issue number1
Number of pages9
ISSN2469-9926
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Jan 2023

    Research areas

  • QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION, ENHANCED SENSITIVITY, SQUEEZED STATES, NOON STATES, PHOTON, GENERATION

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