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Priya Drashni

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High-flux sub-Poissonian twin fields generation from warm atomic vapor

We demonstrate the generation of sub-Poissonian twin fields via near-degenerate spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) in warm $^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ vapor at 795~nm. When seeded with a weak coherent field, the generated twin beams exhibit approximately $5.5~\mathrm{dB}$ of intensity-difference squeezing in free space and retain about $3~\mathrm{dB}$ after coupling into polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers. Under vacuum seeding, time-resolved photon-counting measurements yield Mandel parameters of $Q\approx-0.7$ for each individual field, demonstrating strong photon-number squeezing. To explain these observations, we develop a finite-resource saturation model in which occupation-dependent SFWM gain, arising from competition for a finite nonlinear gain resource, suppresses large photon-number fluctuations within an effective collective mode selected by the PM-fiber spatial projection, thereby producing the observed negative Mandel-$Q$ parameters. The temporal cross-correlation between the twin photons exhibits a distinctive flat-topped profile resulting from the interplay of multiple $χ^{(3)}$ processes in the atomic medium and is in excellent agreement with the theoretical model. Combining high photon flux, near-resonant operation, robust sub-Poissonian photon statistics, and fiber compatibility, this source provides a promising platform for scalable quantum-enhanced sensing and quantum information processing.

quant-ph

Phase Independent Measurement of Weak Coherent Optical Signals

We develop a quantum sensing framework for the phase independent detection of weak coherent optical displacements based on SU(1,1) interferometry. Unlike conventional quantum measurement protocols that require prior knowledge of the signal phase and coherent homodyne detection, the proposed approach estimates the displacement magnitude independently of its phase. We show that, under ideal lossless conditions, a conventional SU(1,1) interferometer employing only total intensity detection saturates the quantum Cramer Rao bound for displacement magnitude estimation. We further derive the analytical expression of the quantum Cramer Rao bound and the sensitivity of the conventional SU(1,1) interferometer with total intensity detection and systematically investigate its performance in the presence of optical loss. The proposed phase-independent intensity detection scheme achieves comparable performance over experimentally relevant operating regimes while eliminating the need for local oscillators, phase locking, and quadrature tracking. These results establish SU(1,1) based intensity detection as a practical platform for phase independent quantum sensing.

quant-ph

From CFTs to theories with Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetries: Complexity and out-of-time-ordered correlators

We probe the contraction from $2d$ relativistic CFTs to theories with Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetries, or equivalently Conformal Carroll symmetries, using diagnostics of quantum chaos. Starting from an Ultrarelativistic limit on a relativistic scalar field theory and following through at the quantum level using an oscillator representation of states, one can show the CFT$_2$ vacuum evolves smoothly into a BMS$_3$ vacuum in the form of a squeezed state. Computing circuit complexity of this transmutation using the covariance matrix approach shows clear divergences when the BMS point is hit or equivalently when the target state becomes a boundary state. We also find similar behaviour of the circuit complexity calculated from methods of information geometry. Furthermore, we discuss the hamiltonian evolution of the system and investigate Out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOCs) and operator growth complexity, both of which turn out to scale polynomially with time at the BMS point.

hep-th