On balanced homodyne measurement -- simple proof of wave function collapse
Abstract
Using only elementary calculus we prove that the balanced homodyne detector measures the quadrature phase amplitude of a signal. More precisely, after the measurement of photon numbers l, the collapse of the composite state of a strong laser beam and a signal approximates the collapse of the signal to the eigen-state of quadrature phase amplitude with eigen-value r.
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