Quantum trajectories for propagating Fock states
Ben Q. Baragiola, Joshua Combes · Physical Review A · 2017
We derive quantum trajectories (also known as stochastic master equations) that describe an arbitrary quantum system probed by a propagating wave packet of light prepared in a continuous-mode Fock state. We consider three detection schemes of the output light: photon counting, homodyne detection, and heterodyne detection. We generalize to input field states in superpositions and mixtures of Fock states and illustrate our formalism with several examples.