Recent developments in photon-level operations on travelling light fields

2008/06/23 by M. S. Kim, M S Kim
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/41/13/133001

published as J. Phys. B 41, 133001 (2008) · 18 pages, Tutorial paper

openalex publication_date 2008/06/23 · arxiv created 2008/07/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

Annihilating and creating a photon in a travelling light field are useful building blocks for quantum-state engineering to generate a photonic state at will. In this tutorial, we review the relevance of these operations to some of the fundamental aspects of quantum physics and recent advances in this research.

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