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Quantum Tomography of Negative Energy States in the
Vacuum
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Contents
Examples of Negative (Sub-Vacuum) Energy Found in Nature ....................... 4
Basic Notions of the Quantum Field Theory of Light ................................... 5
Basic Notions on the Origin of the Quantum Vacuum Zero-Point
Negative (Sub-Vacuum) Energy in Squeezed Light .................................... 8
Negative (Sub-Vacuum) Energy in the Casimir Effect................................13
Basic Notions of Quantum Optical Homodyne Tomography .......................... 16
BALANCED HOMODYNE SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING NEGATIVE
Balanced Homodyne System for Casimir Cavities ......................................... 36
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Figures
Figure 1. Illustration of a Squeezed State of Light ............................................... 13
Figure 3. Illustration of Quantum Optical Homodyne Tomography ....................... 16
Figure 4. Wigner Function for a Vacuum and for a Coherent State ....................... 19
Figure 7. Quantum Tomography of Schrodinger-Cat States .................................. 22
Figure 8. Schematic of an Ideal Lossless Beam Splitter........................................ 25
Figure 9. Illustration of a Fictitious Beam Splitter ................................................ 26
Figure 10. Schematic of a Balanced Homodyne Detector...................................... 29
Figure 11. Balanced Homodyne Detector Using Fictitious Beam Splitters ............. 31
Figure 12. Balanced Homodyne Detector Using A Single Effective Fictitious Beam
Figure 13. Time-Domain Balanced Homodyne Detector........................................ 34
Figure 14. Experimentally Measured Squeezed State ........................................... 35
Figure 15. Balanced Homodyne Detector with a Local Oscillator .......................... 38
Figure 16. Diagram of Casimir Cavity with BHD Photodiodes ............................... 40
Figure 17. Experimental Setup of BHD Photodiodes and LO Field ......................... 40
Figure 18. Detailed Schematic of Experimental BHD Apparatus ........................... 41
Figure 20. Predicted Suppression of Vacuum Fluctuations in dB…