Giant violations of classical inequalities through conditional homodyne detection of the quadrature amplitudes of light

Phys Rev Lett. 2000 Aug 28;85(9):1855-8. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1855.

Abstract

Conditional homodyne detection is proposed as an extension of the intensity correlation technique introduced by Hanbury-Brown and Twiss [Nature (London) 177, 27 (1956)]. It detects giant quadrature amplitude fluctuations for weakly squeezed light, violating a classical bound by orders of magnitude. Fluctuations of both quadrature amplitudes are anomalously large. The squeezed quadrature also exhibits an anomalous phase.