Creation and detection of a mesoscopic gas in a non-local quantum superposition
Other Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We investigate the scattering of a quantum matter wave soliton on a barrier in a one dimensional geometry and we show that it can lead to mesoscopic Schr\"odinger cat states, where the atomic gas is in a coherent superposition of being in the half-space to the left of the barrier and being in the half-space to the right of the barrier. We propose an interferometric method to reveal the coherent nature of this superposition and we discuss in details the experimental feasibility.
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@article{arxiv.0806.3395,
title = {Creation and detection of a mesoscopic gas in a non-local quantum superposition},
author = {Christoph Weiss and Yvan Castin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.3395},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure