Nonclassical properties of coherent states

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2004.07.003zbMATH Open1209.81133arXivquant-ph/0309025OpenAlexW1974992211MaRDI QIDQ2425694FDOQ2425694

Lars M. Johansen

Publication date: 7 May 2008

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

Abstract: It is demonstrated that a weak measurement of the squared quadrature observable may yield negative values for coherent states. This result cannot be reproduced by a classical theory where quadratures are stochastic $c$-numbers. The real part of the weak value is a conditional moment of the Margenau-Hill distribution. The nonclassicality of coherent states can be associated with negative values of the Margenau-Hill distribution. A more general type of weak measurement is considered, where the pointer can be in an arbitrary state, pure or mixed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309025

zbMATH Keywords

coherent statesweak valuesweak measurementsnonclassicality\(P\)-distributionKirkwood distributionMargenau-Hill distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Coherent states (81R30)

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