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View SchemaVacuum fluctuations and the conditional homodyne detection of squeezed light
| Authors | H J Carmichael, Hyunchul Nha |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0406102 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406102 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1464-4266/6/8/004 |
| Journal | J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt., vol. 6, S645 (2004). |
Abstract
Conditional homodyne detection of quadrature squeezing is compared with standard nonconditional detection. Whereas the latter identifies nonclassicality in a quantitative way, as a reduction of the noise power below the shot noise level, conditional detection makes a qualitative distinction between vacuum state squeezing and squeezed classical noise. Implications of this comparison for the realistic interpretation of vacuum fluctuations (stochastic electrodynamics) are discussed.
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