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Generating Hermite polynomial excited squeezed states by means of conditional measurements on a beam splitter
A scheme for conditional generating a Hermite polynomial excited squeezed
vacuum states (HESVS) is proposed. Injecting a two-mode squeezed vacuum state
(TMSVS) into a beam splitter (BS) and counting the photons in one of the output
channels, the conditional state in the other output channel is just a HESVS. To
exhibit a number of nonclassical effects and non-Guassianity, we mainly
investigate the photon number distribution, sub-Poissonian distribution,
quadrature component distribution, and quasi-probability distribution of the
HPESVS. We find that its nonclassicality closely relates to the control
parameter of the BS, the squeezed parameter of the TMSVS, and the photon number
of conditional measurement. These further demonstrate that performing the
conditional measurement on a BS is an effective approach to generate
non-Guassian state.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:quant-ph/9703039 by other author
Higher-order properties and Bell-inequality violation for the three-mode enhanced squeezed state
By extending the usual two-mode squeezing operator to the three-mode squeezing operator , we
obtain the corresponding three-mode squeezed coherent state. The state's
higher-order properties, such as higher-order squeezing and higher-order
sub-Possonian photon statistics, are investigated. It is found that the new
squeezed state not only can be squeezed to all even orders but also exhibits
squeezing enhancement comparing with the usual cases. In addition, we examine
the violation of Bell-inequality for the three-mode squeezed states by using
the formalism of Wigner representation
Flow-based Intrinsic Curiosity Module
In this paper, we focus on a prediction-based novelty estimation strategy
upon the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework, and present a flow-based
intrinsic curiosity module (FICM) to exploit the prediction errors from optical
flow estimation as exploration bonuses. We propose the concept of leveraging
motion features captured between consecutive observations to evaluate the
novelty of observations in an environment. FICM encourages a DRL agent to
explore observations with unfamiliar motion features, and requires only two
consecutive frames to obtain sufficient information when estimating the
novelty. We evaluate our method and compare it with a number of existing
methods on multiple benchmark environments, including Atari games, Super Mario
Bros., and ViZDoom. We demonstrate that FICM is favorable to tasks or
environments featuring moving objects, which allow FICM to utilize the motion
features between consecutive observations. We further ablatively analyze the
encoding efficiency of FICM, and discuss its applicable domains
comprehensively.Comment: The SOLE copyright holder is IJCAI (International Joint Conferences
on Artificial Intelligence), all rights reserved. The link is provided as
follows: https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2020/28
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