Hao-Liang Zhang

Hermite polynomial excited squeezed vacuum as quantum optical vortex states

We introduce theoretically a kind of Hermite polynomial excited squeezed vacuum by extending the wave-packet states with a vortex structure to a general case. Its normalised factor is found to be the Legendre polynomial and the condition converting the general case to a special one is achieved. Then we consider its statistical properties according to the photon number distribution and the Wigner function. As an application, we investigate the performance of the teleportation of the coherent state. It is shown that these parameters in the generalised state can modulate all the above properties including the vortex structure.

Experimental proposal for performing nonlocal measurement of a product observable

Due to the restrictions on quantum measurement imposed by relativistic causality, it is not easy to perform a nonlocal measurement on spacelike separated systems instantaneously. Here we design an experiment in an optical system to perform the nonlocal measurement of a product observable on a two-qubit system, where a maximally-entangled two-qubit state, acting as an ancillary meter, and three identical Kerr media are used to couple the system under consideration and the target meter. It is shown that the nonlocal measurement of the product observable, σzA⊗σzB, which has two degenerate eigenvalues, could be implemented in a deterministic way without violating relativistic causality.