Can coarse measurements reveal macroscopic quantum effects?
Quantum Physics
2014-01-10 v1
Abstract
It has recently been conjectured that detecting quantum effects such as superposition or entanglement for macroscopic systems always requires high measurement precision. Analyzing an apparent counter-example involving macroscopic coherent states and Kerr non-linearities, we find that while measurements with coarse outcomes can be sufficient, the phase control precision of the necessary non-linear operations has to increase with the size of the system. This suggests a refined conjecture that either the {\it outcome precision} or the {\it control precision} of the measurements has to increase with system size.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.0732,
title = {Can coarse measurements reveal macroscopic quantum effects?},
author = {Tian Wang and Roohollah Ghobadi and Sadegh Raeisi and Christoph Simon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0732},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures