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View SchemaUnified Treatment of Heterodyne Detection: the Shapiro-Wagner and Caves Frameworks
| Authors | G. Landolfi, G. Ruggeri, G. Soliani |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0502027 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502027 |
| DOI | 10.1142/S0217979205029833 |
| Journal | International Journal of Modern Physics B, Vol. 19, No. 14 (2005) 2287-2310 |
Abstract
A comparative study is performed on two heterodyne systems of photon detectors expressed in terms of a signal annihilation operator and an image band creation operator called Shapiro-Wagner and Caves' frame, respectively. This approach is based on the introduction of a convenient operator $\hat \psi$ which allows a unified formulation of both cases. For the Shapiro-Wagner scheme, where $[\hat \psi, \hat \psi^{\dag}] =0$, quantum phase and amplitude are exactly defined in the context of relative number state (RNS) representation, while a procedure is devised to handle suitably and in a consistent way Caves' framework, characterized by $[\hat \psi, \hat \psi^{\dag}] \neq 0$, within the approximate simultaneous measurements of noncommuting variables. In such a case RNS phase and amplitude make sense only approximately.
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"title": "Unified Treatment of Heterodyne Detection: the Shapiro-Wagner and Caves Frameworks",
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