Effects of entanglement in an ideal optical amplifier

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2018.01.032zbMATH Open1383.78030arXiv1608.08821OpenAlexW2741048739MaRDI QIDQ1709210FDOQ1709210

Authors: J. D. Franson, R. A. Brewster 

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In an ideal linear amplifier, the output signal is linearly related to the input signal with an additive noise that is independent of the input. The decoherence of a quantum-mechanical state as a result of optical amplification is usually assumed to be due to the addition of quantum noise. Here we show that entanglement between the input signal and the amplifying medium can produce an exponentially-large amount of decoherence in an ideal optical amplifier even when the gain is arbitrarily close to unity and the added noise is negligible. These effects occur for macroscopic superposition states, where even a small amount of gain can leave a significant amount of which-path information in the environment. Our results show that the usual input/output relation of a linear amplifier does not provide a complete description of the output state when post-selection is used.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08821

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zbMATH Keywords

noiseentanglementdecoherencequantumamplifier

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Quantum optics (81V80) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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