Hierarchy of feasible nonclassicality criteria for sources of photons
Radim Filip, Lukáš Lachman · Physical Review A · 2013
We present an ab-initio derivation of a hierarchy of efficient nonclassicality criteria for sources of photons. The operational criteria are explicitly proposed for the linear optical multiport and feasible multiplexed single-photon detectors. The lowest criterion is equivalent to the frequently used ${g}^{(2)}(0)$ autocorrelation measurement testing the anticorrelation effect of photons. We also derive a hierarchy of criteria for the detectors capable to at least partially estimate photon-number distribution. We prove the usefulness of both hierarchies to detect the nonclassical states from the noisy multimode single-photon sources and the nonclassical states from the multiphoton sources.