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Caves has presented an abstract theory of quantum linear amplifiers in which “in” and “out” Bose operators are related by a linear transformation with added quantum noise. This theory has a purely formal basis, and is not related to any physically constructed amplifier model.
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C. Caves, Phys. Rev. D 26, 1817 (1982).
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Gardiner, C.W., Collett, M. (1984). Quantum and Classical Amplifier Theory. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics V. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0605-5_121
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