A probabilistic phase-insensitive optical squeezer in peaceful coexistence with causality

TL;DR

This paper introduces a probabilistic, heralded phase-insensitive optical squeezer that can uniformly squeeze all quadratures, offering potential advancements in quantum communication while maintaining causality.

Contribution

It demonstrates a universal single-mode squeezer capable of acting on all quadratures simultaneously, expanding the functionality of noiseless linear amplifiers.

Findings

Serves as a heralded phase-insensitive optical squeezer

Conserves signal-to-noise ratio across all quadratures

Ensures causality is preserved despite the squeezing capabilities

Abstract

A non trace-preserving map describing a probabilistic but heralded noiseless linear amplifier has recently been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Here, we exhibit another remarkable feature of this peculiar transformation, namely its ability to serve as a universal single-mode squeezer regardless of the quadrature that is initially squeezed. Hence, it acts as an heralded phase-insensitive optical squeezer, conserving the signal-to-noise ratio just as a phase-sensitive optical amplifier but for all quadratures at the same time, which may offer new perspectives in quantum optical communications. Although this ability to squeeze all quadratures seemingly opens a way to instantaneous signaling by circumventing the quantum no-cloning theorem, we explain the subtle mechanism by which the probability for such a causality violation vanishes, even on an heralded basis.