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Quantum jumps in backaction evasion measurements of a light field component

Holger F. Hofmann, Takayoshi Kobayashi, Akira Furusawa

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0005105

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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