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Schr\"odinger's cat is an iconic example for the problem of the transition from the microscopic quantum world to the macroscopic, classical one. It opened many interesting questions such as, could a macroscopic superposition like a dead and…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-06-04 Andrea López-Incera , Wolfgang Dür , Stefan Heusler

We propose a fast scheme to generate Schr\"odinger cat states in a superconducting resonator using a continuously driven qubit without resorting to the dispersive regime, two-photon drives, or engineered two-photon dissipation. We provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 M. Ayyash , X. Xu , M. Mariantoni

Microscopic Schr{\"o}dinger cat states are generated from quantum correlated fields using a probabilistic heralding photon subtraction event. Subsequent quantum state tomography provides complete information about the state with typical…

We study the application of squeezed states in a quantum optical scheme for direct sampling of the phase space by photon counting. We prove that the detection setup with a squeezed coherent probe field is equivalent to the probing of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Konrad Banaszek , Krzysztof Wodkiewicz

Scaling up quantum computing devices requires solving ever more complex quantum control tasks. Machine learning has been proposed as a promising approach to tackle the resulting challenges. However, experimental implementations are still…

Until now, Schr\"odinger's cat states are generated by subtracting single photons from the whole bandwidth of squeezed vacua. However, it was pointed out recently that the achievable purities are limited in such method (J. Yoshikawa, W.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Warit Asavanant , Kota Nakashima , Yu Shiozawa , Jun-ichi Yoshikawa , Akira Furusawa

We provide a scheme by utilizing a two-cavity setup to generate useful quantum mechanically entangled states of two cavity fields, which themselves are prepared in Schrodinger cat states. The underlying atom-field interaction is considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Abdul Q. Batin , Suranjana Ghosh , Utpal Roy , David Vitali

We present novel theory of effective realization of large-scale optical Schrodinger cat states.

We propose a nanodevice based on a typical planar semiconductor heterostructure with lateral confinement potential created by voltages applied to local electrodes. We show how to obtain near parabolical confinement along the nanodevice, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 J. Pawłowski , M. Górski , G. Skowron , S. Bednarek

A reason is discussed (may be not the only one) for why we do not see any superposition of macroscopic states in the real world. Under the general assumption that quantum macrostates are statistical ensembles of microstates, it is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Fabio Siringo

In addition to being a very interesting quantum phenomenon, Schr\"odinger cat swapping has the potential for application in the preparation of quantum states that could be used in metrology and other quantum processing. We study in detail…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-01 M. J. Everitt , W. J. Munro , T. P. Spiller

Entanglement is the quintessential quantum phenomenon and a key enabler of quantum algorithms. The ability to faithfully entangle many distinct particles is often used as a benchmark for the quality of hardware and control in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Ali Javadi-Abhari , Simon Martiel , Alireza Seif , Maika Takita , Ken X. Wei

We show that projective measurements on quantum light can induce macroscopic cat states in many-electron systems driven by such light. Here we investigate the quantum dynamics of $N$ independent two-level electrons interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Shohei Imai

We propose a detection scheme for measuring the overlap of the quantum state of a weakly excited traveling-field mode with a desired reference quantum state, by successive mixing the signal mode with modes prepared in coherent states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 J. Clausen , M. Dakna , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

The Schr\"odinger cat states, constructed from Glauber coherent states and applied for description of qubits, are generalized to the kaleidoscope of coherent states related with regular n-polygon symmetry and the roots of unity. The cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Oktay K. Pashaev , Aygül Koçak

Long-range entangled quantum states -- like cat states and topological order -- are key for quantum metrology and information purposes, but they cannot be prepared by any scalable unitary process. Intriguingly, using measurements as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Ruben Verresen , Nathanan Tantivasadakarn , Ashvin Vishwanath

It is shown that because of the radiation pressure a Schr\"odinger cat state can be generated in a resonator with oscillating wall. The optomechanical control of quantum macroscopic coherence and its detection is taken into account…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Mancini , V. I. Man'ko , P. Tombesi

The paper considers the possibility of generating different non-Gaussian states using the entangled state photon measurement scheme. In the paper, we have proposed a way to explicitly find the wave function and the Wigner function of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 E. N. Bashmakova , S. B. Korolev , T. Yu. Golubeva

While dissipation is widely considered as being harmful for quantum coherence, it can, when properly engineered, lead to the stabilization of non-trivial pure quantum states. We propose a scheme for continuous generation and stabilization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Ananda Roy , Zaki Leghtas , A. Douglas Stone , Michel Devoret , Mazyar Mirrahimi

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
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