Figure 7: Effect of photon losses and timing jitter on the average degree of squeezing produced by N cycles of the Rabi protocol.

The three lower curves show the effect of photon loss together with three different degrees of timing imperfections: photon loss alone with no timing error (brown, triangles), photon loss plus random timing errors chosen from a Gaussian distribution of width δσ/δΓ_± = 0.01 (yellow, crosses), and photon loss plus random timing errors with distribution width δσ/δΓ_± = 0.1 (cyan, open circles). For comparison, the ideal case is also shown (black, filled dots). The photon loss rate is Γ = 0.01/δT₊; other physical parameters are given by Δ/ω = 2, g/ω = 0.1, Ω/ω = 1 + Δ/ω.