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The Schr\"odinger's-cat state is created from the macroscopic superposition of coherent states and is well-known to be a useful resource for quantum information processing protocols. In order to extend such protocols to a global scale, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Hung Do , Robert Malaney , Jonathan Green

Schr\"odinger-cat (SC) states are an important resource for continuous-variable quantum computing and quantum metrology. In our previous work [JOSA B, 42, 2 (2025)], we proposed a probabilistic protocol for generating bright squeezed SC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 V. L. Gorshenin

Squeezed Schr\"odinger cat states are a valuable resource for quantum error correction and quantum computing. In this paper, we investigate the gate for generating such states in the optical regime. Our scheme is based on the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 A. V. Baeva , A. S. Losev , I. V. Sokolov

Encoding quantum states in complex multiphoton fields can overcome loss during signal transmission in a quantum network. Transmitting quantum information encoded in this way requires that locally stored states can be converted to…

The Wehrl information entropy and its phase density, the so-called Wehrl phase distribution, are applied to describe Schr\"odinger cat and cat-like (kitten) states. The advantages of the Wehrl phase distribution over the Wehrl entropy in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-04 A. Miranowicz , J. Bajer , M. R. B. Wahiddin , N. Imoto

The observation of quantum phenomena often necessitates sufficiently pure states, a requirement that can be challenging to achieve. In this study, our goal is to prepare a non-classical state originating from a mixed state, utilizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Ian Yang , Thomas Agrenius , Vasilisa Usova , Oriol Romero-Isart , Gerhard Kirchmair

Nonclassical states are an important class of states in quantum mechanics, particularly for applications in quantum information theory. Optomechanical systems are invaluable platforms for exploring and harnessing these states. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Bruno P. Schnepper , Danilo Cius , Fabiano M. Andrade

We theoretically propose a method for on-demand generation of traveling Schr\"odinger cat states, namely, quantum superpositions of distinct coherent states of traveling fields. This method is based on deterministic generation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Hayato Goto , Zhirong Lin , Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Yasunobu Nakamura

In this work we propose the technique for phase-coded weak coherent states protocols utilizing two signal states and one decoy state which is found as linear combination of signal states (Schr\"odinger Cat states); the latter allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Andrei Gaidash , Anton Kozubov , George Miroshnichenko

We consider the interaction of an harmonic oscillator with the quantum field via radiation pressure. We show that a `Schrodinger cat' state decoheres in a time scale that depends on the degree of `classicality' of the state components, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Paulo A. Maia Neto , Diego A. R. Dalvit

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.…

We propose a realistic scheme of generating a traveling odd Schr$\"o$dinger cat state and a generalized entangled coherent state in circuit quantum electrodynamics (circuit-QED). A squeezed vacuum state is used as initial resource of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Jaewoo Joo , Su-Yong Lee , Jaewan Kim

Cavity quantum optomechanics has emerged as a new platform for quantum science and technology with applications ranging from quantum-information processing to tests of the foundations of physics. Of crucial importance for optomechanics is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Lydia A. Kanari-Naish , Jack Clarke , Sofia Qvarfort , Michael R. Vanner

We introduce a two-state non-conserving driven-diffusive system in one-dimension under a discrete-time updating scheme. We show that the steady-state of the system can be obtained using a matrix product approach. On the other hand, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-07 S. R. Masharian , F. H. Jafarpour , A. Aghamohammadi

Although quantum mechanics is a mature theory, fundamental problems discussed during its time of foundation have remained with us to this day. These problems are centered on the problematic relation between the quantum and classical worlds.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. B. Lesovik , A. V. Lebedev , G. Blatter

The dephasing influence of a dissipative environment reduces linear superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states (sometimes also called Schr\"odinger cat states) usually almost immediately to a statistical mixture. This process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Braun , Petr A. Braun , Fritz Haake

We propose a high-rate generation method of optical Schr\"{o}dinger's cat states. Thus far, photon subtraction from squeezed vacuum states has been a standard method in cat-state generation, but its constraints on experimental parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Kan Takase , Jun-ichi Yoshikawa , Warit Asavanant , Mamoru Endo , Akira Furusawa

In the Schr\"odinger-cat gedanken experiment a cat is in a quantum superposition of two macroscopically distinct states, alive and dead.The paradoxical interpretation of quantum mechanics is that the cat is not in one state or the other,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D. Reid

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

We explore a transverse-field Ising model that exhibits both spontaneous symmetry-breaking and eigenstate thermalization. Within its ferromagnetic phase, the exact eigenstates of the Hamiltonian of any large but finite-sized system are all…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 Bo Zhao , Merritt C. Kerridge , David A. Huse