Marginal States of Light

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We introduce marginal states of light which are barely classical and hence lie on the boundary between classical and nonclassical states. A marginal state may be obtained as an output of a beam splitter with vanishingly small transmission coefficient and a very intense nonclassical light as an input. We also point out that any marginal state can be made to be maximally nonclassical by adding a single photon. The close relation between nonclassicality and the particle nature of light is addressed.

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