Suggested Readings and References

Adesso, G.; Ragy, S. and Lee, A. R. (2014). Continuous Variable Quantum Information: Gaussian States and Beyond. Open Systems & Information Dynamics 21, 1440001.

Olivares, S. (2011). Quantum optics in the phase space. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 203, 3–24.

Wang, X.-B.; Hiroshima, T.; Tomita, A. and Hayashi, M. (2007). Quantum information with Gaussian states. Physics Reports 448, 1–111.

Weedbrook, C.; Pirandola, S.; Garcı́a-Patrón, R.; Cerf, N. J.; Ralph, T. C.; Shapiro, J. H. and Lloyd, S. (2012). Gaussian quantum information. Rev. Mod. Phys. 84, 621–669.

Braunstein, S. L. (2005). Squeezing as an irreducible resource. Phys. Rev. A 71, 055801.

Cerf, N. J.; Leuchs, G. and Polzik, E. S. (2007). Quantum Information with Continuous Variables of Atoms and Light (Imperial College Press).

Serafini, A. (2023). Quantum Continuous Variables: A Primer of Theoretical Methods (CRC Press).

Walschaers, M. (2021). Non-Gaussian Quantum States and Where to Find Them. PRX Quantum 2, 030204.

Andersen, U.; Leuchs, G. and Silberhorn, C. (2010). Continuous-variable quantum information processing. Laser & Photonics Reviews 4, 337–354.

Cerf, N. J. and Grangier, P. (2007). From quantum cloning to quantum key distribution with continuous variables: a review (Invited). J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 324–334.

Fukui, K. and Takeda, S. (2022). Building a large-scale quantum computer with continuous-variable optical technologies. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 55, 012001.

Goldberg, A. Z.; Klimov, A. B.; Grassl, M.; Leuchs, G. and Sánchez-Soto, L. L. (2020). Extremal quantum states. AVS Quantum Science 2, 044701.

Jankowski, M.; Yanagimoto, R.; Ng, E.; Hamerly, R.; McKenna, T. P.; Mabuchi, H. and Fejer, M. M. (2024). Ultrafast second-order nonlinear photonics—from classical physics to non-Gaussian quantum dynamics: a tutorial. Adv. Opt. Photon. 16, 347–538.

van Loock, P. (2002). Quantum Communication with Continuous Variables. Fortschritte der Physik 50, 1177–1372.

Lvovsky, A. I. and Raymer, M. G. (2009). Continuous-variable optical quantum-state tomography. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 299–332.

Pirandola, S. and Mancini, S. (2006). Quantum teleportation with continuous variables: A survey. Laser Physics 16, 1418–1438.

Bartlett, S. D.; Sanders, B. C.; Braunstein, S. L. and Nemoto, K. (2002). Efficient Classical Simulation of Continuous Variable Quantum Information Processes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 097904.

Braunstein, S. L. (2005). Squeezing as an irreducible resource. Phys. Rev. A 71, 055801.

Duan, L.-M.; Giedke, G.; Cirac, J. I. and Zoller, P. (2000). Entanglement Purification of Gaussian Continuous Variable Quantum States. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4002–4005.

Eisert, J.; Scheel, S. and Plenio, M. B. (2002). Distilling Gaussian States with Gaussian Operations is Impossible. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 137903.

Eisert, J. and Plenio, M. B. (2002). Conditions for the Local Manipulation of Gaussian States. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 097901.

Fiurášek, J. (2002). Gaussian Transformations and Distillation of Entangled Gaussian States. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 137904.

Giedke, G.; Wolf, M. M.; Krüger, O.; Werner, R. F. and Cirac, J. I. (2003). Entanglement of Formation for Symmetric Gaussian States. Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 107901.

Giedke, G. and Ignacio Cirac, J. (2002). Characterization of Gaussian operations and distillation of Gaussian states. Phys. Rev. A 66, 032316.

Grosshans, F. and Grangier, P. (2002). Continuous Variable Quantum Cryptography Using Coherent States. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 057902.

Lloyd, S. and Braunstein, S. L. (1999). Quantum Computation over Continuous Variables. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1784–1787.

Simon, R.; Sudarshan, E. C. and Mukunda, N. (1988). Gaussian pure states in quantum mechanics and the symplectic group. Phys. Rev. A 37, 3028–3038.

Wenger, J.; Tualle-Brouri, R. and Grangier, P. (2004). Non-Gaussian Statistics from Individual Pulses of Squeezed Light. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 153601.

Cenni, M. F.; Lami, L.; Acín, A. and Mehboudi, M. (2022). Thermometry of Gaussian quantum systems using Gaussian measurements. Quantum 6, 743.

Kiukas, J. and Schultz, J. (2013). Informationally complete sets of Gaussian measurements. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 46, 485303.

Marco G. Genoni, L. L. and Serafini, A. (2016). Conditional and unconditional Gaussian quantum dynamics. Contemporary Physics 57, 331–349.

Zhang, J. (2018). Quantum measurement and preparation of Gaussian states. Ph.D. Thesis, Aarhus University.