Purification of Gaussian States by Photon Subtraction

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that photon subtraction can be used to purify Gaussian states, increasing their purity by up to 20%, and explores its effects on entanglement and noise reduction in continuous-variable quantum systems.

Contribution

It reveals that photon subtraction can both reduce entanglement and increase the purity of Gaussian states, providing a new method for state purification in quantum information.

Findings

Photon subtraction can increase Gaussian state purity by less than 20%.

Photon subtraction can simultaneously enhance entanglement and purify reduced states in multimode systems.

The study introduces a new application of photon subtraction for Gaussian noise suppression in quantum information.

Abstract

Photon subtraction can enhance entanglement, which for pure states induces a decrease in the purity of reduced states. In contrast, by analyzing the purities of Gaussian states before and after subtracting a single photon, we prove that the purity of a Gaussian state can also be increased by less than 20%. On the one hand, it reveals that photon subtraction can reduce entanglement, and on the other hand, it reveals that it can achieve a limited amount of Gaussian state purification. Through the analysis of some examples, we demonstrate the inherent mechanism and applicable scope of photon-subtraction-based purification. In a multimode system, we find that photon subtraction can increase entanglement and purify some of the reduced states simultaneously. We thus present purification through the suppression of Gaussian noise as a new application for photon subtraction in continuous-variable quantum information processing.