Enhancement of nonclassical properties of the two-mode squeezed vacuum state with a postselected von Neumann measurement
Janarbek Yuanbek, Yi-Fang Ren, Ahmad Abliz, Yusuf Turek · Physical Review A · 2024
We investigate the effects of weak value amplification on the nonclassical properties of the two-mode squeezed vacuum state. We calculate the quadrature squeezing and second-order cross-correlation functions to demonstrate the advantages of postselective weak measurement (WM). We also examine the entanglement between the two modes by evaluating various entanglement criteria, including the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, Hillery-Zubairy correlation, and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations. Our results show that postselected von Neumann measurements significantly optimize the two-mode squeezed vacuum state. Notably, the amplification effect of weak values plays a critical role in this process. We demonstrated that in the WM regime, as the weak values increase, the nonclassical properties of the two-mode squeezed vacuum state such as entanglement and correlations between the two modes become more pronounced compared to the original state. We also propose possible implementation methods for our approach using trapped ion systems and optical platforms. Our enhanced two-mode squeezed vacuum state may have potential applications in quantum information processing scenarios, such as single-photon generation, advanced imaging techniques, quantum computation, and long-distance quantum communication.