RT Journal Article T1 Superiority of heterodyning over homodyning: An assessment with quadrature moments A1 Teo, Y. S. A1 Müller, C. R. A1 Jeong, H. A1 Hradil, Z. A1 Řeháček, J. A1 Sánchez Soto, Luis Lorenzo AB We examine the moment-reconstruction performance of both the homodyne and heterodyne (doublehomodyne) measurement schemes for arbitrary quantum states and introduce moment estimators that optimize the respective schemes for any given data. In the large-data limit, these estimators are as efficient as the maximum-likelihood estimators. We then illustrate the superiority of the heterodyne measurement for the reconstruction of the first and second moments by analyzing Gaussian states and many other significant nonclassical states. Finally, we present an extension of our theories to two-mode sources, which can be straightforwardly generalized to all other multimode sources. PB Amer Physical Soc SN 2469-9926 YR 2017 FD 2017-04-17 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17868 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/17868 LA eng NO ©2017 American Physical Socie. We acknowledge financial support from the BK21 Plus Program (Grant No. 21A20131111123) funded by the Ministry of Korea (NRF), the NRF grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (Grant No. 2010-0018295), the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Institutional Program (Project No. 2E26680-16-P025), the European Research Council (Advanced Grant PACART), the Spanish MINECO (Grant No. FIS2015-67963-P), the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Grant No. 15-03194S), and the IGA Project of the Palacky University (Grant No. IGA PrF 2016-005). NO Unión Europea. FP7 NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) NO Grant Agency of the Czech Republic NO IGA Project of the Palacky University DS Docta Complutense RD 28 abr 2024