December 17, 2008
Physicsworld.com (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/37106) publishes a paper about the recent results of the quantum optics group of INOA. The controlled subtraction of single photons from arbitrary light states has allowed us to verify theoretical predictions on the behavior of the annihilation operator. In particular, some fundamental properties of the coherent states that led to the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics to Roy Glauber have been experimentally verified by our group for the first time.