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Quantum superpositions of distinct coherent states in a single-mode harmonic oscillator, known as "cat states", have been an elegant demonstration of Schrodinger's famous cat paradox. Here, we realize a two-mode cat state of electromagnetic…

The Schr\"odinger cat male and female states are discussed. The Wigner and Q--functions of generalized correlated light are given. Linear transformator of photon statistics is reviewed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Manko

A one-parameter generalized Wigner-Heisenberg algebra( WHA) is reviewed in detail. It is shown that WHA verifies the deformed commutation rule $[\hat{x}, \hat{p}_{\lambda}] = i(1 + 2\lambda \hat{R})$ and also highlights the dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 A. Dehghani , B. Mojaveri , S. Shirin , M. Saedi

We study several classical like properties of q-deformed nonlinear coherent states as well as nonclassical behaviours of q-deformed version of the Schrodinger cat states in noncommutative space. Coherent states in q-deformed space are found…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Sanjib Dey

Non-Gaussian quantum states have been deterministically prepared and autonomously stabilized in single- and two-mode circuit quantum electrodynamics architectures via engineered dissipation. However, it is currently unknown how to scale up…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Petr Zapletal , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Matteo Brunelli

We investigate the superposition of coherent states, emphasizing quantum states with distinct Wigner phase-space features relevant to quantum information applications. In this study, we introduce generalized versions of the compass state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Tan Hailin , Naeem Akhtar , Gao Xianlong

Displaced Fock states of the electromagnetic field have been synthesized by overlapping the pulsed optical single-photon Fock state |1> with coherent states on a high-reflection beamsplitter and completely characterized by means of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. I. Lvovsky , S. A. Babichev

Linear superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states (sometimes also called Schr\"odinger cat states) are usually almost immediately reduced to a statistical mixture if exposed to the dephasing influence of a dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Braun , Petr A. Braun , Fritz Haake

In quantum optics, photonic Schr\"odinger cats are superpositions of two coherent states with opposite phases and with a significant number of photons. Recently, these states have been observed in the transient dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 F. Minganti , N. Bartolo , J. Lolli , W. Casteels , C. Ciuti

Considering some important classes of generalized coherent states known in literature, we demonstrated that all of them can be created via conventional fashion, i.e. the "lowering operator eigen-state" and the "displacement operator"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Roknizadeh , M. K. Tavassoly

We study the dissipative dynamics of deformed coherent states superposition. We find that such kind of superposition can be more robust against decoherence than the usual Schrodinger cat states.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefano Mancini , Vladimir I. Man'ko

We investigate the quantum properties of superpositions of oppositely squeezed states, which can be regarded as Schrodinger cat states. Compared with conventional coherent-state cat states, these states exhibit distinct photon-number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Hiroo Azuma , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

The iconic Schr\"odinger's cat state describes a system that may be in a superposition of two macroscopically distinct states, for example two clearly separated oscillator coherent states. Quite apart from their role in understanding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-25 M. J. Everitt , T. P. Spiller , G. J. Milburn , R. D. Wilson , A. M. Zagoskin

The multimode even and odd coherent states (multimode Schroedinger cat states) are constructed for polymode parametric oscillators of the electromagnetic field. The evolution of the photon distribution function is evaluated explicitly. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 V. V. Dodonov , V. I. Man'ko , D. E. Nikonov

We investigate the utility of non classical states of simple harmonic oscillators (a superposition of coherent states) for sensitive force detection. We find that like squeezed states a superposition of coherent states allows the detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kae Nemoto , W. J. Munro , G. J. Milburn , S. L. Braunstein

The state of a microscopic system encodes its complete quantum description, from which the probabilities of all measurement outcomes are inferred. Being a statistical concept, the state cannot be obtained from a single system realization.…

Recently, using conditioning approaches on the high-harmonic generation process induced by intense laser-atom interactions, we have developed a new method for the generation of optical Schr\"odinger cat states (M. Lewenstein et al.,…

Generalized cat states represent arbitrary superpositions of coherent states, which are of great importance in various quantum information processing protocols. Here we demonstrate a versatile approach to creating generalized itinerant cat…

Non-Gaussian states, and specifically the paradigmatic Schr\"odinger cat state, are well-known to be very sensitive to losses. When propagating through damping channels, these states quickly loose their non-classical features and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 H. Le Jeannic , A. Cavaillès , K. Huang , R. Filip , J. Laurat

Mesoscopic quantum superpositions, or Schr\"odinger cat states, are widely studied for fundamental investigations of quantum measurement and decoherence as well as applications in sensing and quantum information science. The generation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 K. G. Johnson , J. D. Wong-Campos , B. Neyenhuis , J. Mizrahi , C. Monroe