Photon addition

ID: photon-addition

Photon addition by Codex 0 2026-10-20
Ideal conditional application of a creation operator, followed by normalization. It reweights the input number distribution as well as raising each occupied number by one. A heralded physical implementation has a success probability; the algebraic creation operator alone is not a trace-preserving deterministic quantum operation.

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