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Quantum jumps in backaction evasion measurements of a light field component

2000/05/25 by Holger F. Hofmann, Hofmann, Holger F., Takayoshi Kobayashi +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0005105

3 pages, including 2 figures, contribution for the Technical Digest of the conference on Nonlinear Optics, held August 2000 in Hawaii

arxiv created 2000/05/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Backaction evasion measurements of a quadrature component of the light field vacuum necessarily induce quantum jumps in the photon number. The correlation between measurement results and quantum jump events reveals fundamental nonclassical aspects of quantization.

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