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Published on: May 30, 2014
Nonclassicality Invariant of General Two-Mode Gaussian States
Ievgen I Arkhipov1, Jan Peřina1, Jiří Svozilík1
1RCPTM, Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacký University and Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 17. listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
We introduce a new quantity for describing nonclassicality of an arbitrary optical two-mode Gaussian state which remains invariant under any global photon-number preserving unitary transformation of the covariance matrix of the state. The invariant naturally splits into an entanglement monotone and local-nonclassicality quantifiers applied to the reduced states. This shows how entanglement can be converted into local squeezing and vice versa. Twin beams and their transformations at a beam splitter are analyzed as an example providing squeezed light. An extension of this approach to pure three-mode Gaussian states is given.
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