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Quantum Schrodinger cat states are of great interest in quantum communications and quantum optics. These states are used in various scientific fields such as quantum computing, quantum error correction and high-precision measurements. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 D. V. Fastovets , Yu. I. Bogdanov , N. A. Bogdanova , V. F. Lukichev

We analyze a method for the creation, storage and retrieval of optomechanical Schrodinger cat states, in which there is a quantum superposition of two distinct macroscopic states of a mechanical oscillator. In the proposal, an optical cat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 R. Y. Teh , S. Kiesewetter , P. D. Drummond , M. D. Reid

The quantum state of Schroedinger's cat is usually incorrectly described as a superposition of "dead" and "alive," despite an argument by Rinner and Werner that, locally, the cat should be considered to be in a mixture of non-superposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson

We propose a method to generate an optical Schr\"odinger-cat-like state in a cavity in a substantial decoherence regime. Even when the cavity decay rate is considerably large, a cat-like state can be generated in a laser-like setting if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 Daeho Yang , Junki Kim , Moonjoo Lee , Young-Tak Chough , Kyungwon An

The optical cat state, known as the superposition of coherent states, has broad applications in quantum computation and quantum metrology. Increasing the number of optical cat states is crucial to implement complex quantum information tasks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Dongmei Han , Na Wang , Meihong Wang , Xiaolong Su

We investigate the dynamics for a two level atomic system entangled to coherent states using the recently developed mode invisibility technique. Using a quantum 2-level probe, we demonstrate a way to non-destructively measure a number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Paulina Corona-Ugalde , Marvellous Onuma-Kalu , Robert B. Mann

We propose to use the antisqueezing-enhanced non-Gaussian Schr\"odinger cat quantum states of the probing light for the task of detection of a given phase shift in optical interferometers. We show that the antisqueezing allows to increase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 V. L. Gorshenin , K. D. Dyadkin , S. D. Chikalkin

Superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states, introduced in Schroedinger's famous Gedankenexperiment, are an epitome of quantum "strangeness" and a natural tool for determining the validity limits of quantum physics. The…

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

Taking the decoherence into account, we investigate nonclassical features of the optical Schr\"odinger cat states in one mode and two coupled-modes systems with two-photon driving. In the one mode system, the relationship between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 X. L. Zhao , Z. C. Shi , M. Qin , X. X. Yi

We propose an optical scheme to generate a superposition of coherent states with enhanced size adopting an interferometric setting at the single-photon level currently available in the laboratory. Our scheme employs a nondegenerate optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Chang-Woo Lee , Jinhyoung Lee , Hyunchul Nha , Hyunseok Jeong

Injecting a non-Gaussian (Fock or Shr\"odinger cat) quantum state into the dark port of a two-arm interferometer and a strong classical light into the bright one, it is possible, in principle, to detect a given phase shift unambiguously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 V. L. Gorshenin , F. Ya. Khalili

In this study, we have proposed a method based on non-equilibrium effects to generate the superposition of macroscopically distinguishable quantum states, known as Schrodinger cat states, by using a Mach-Zehnder interferometry type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Arash Tirandaz , Hamid Reza Naeij , Afshin Shafiee

Cavity enhanced light scattering off an ultracold gas in an optical lattice constitutes a quantum measurement with a controllable form of the measurement back-action. Time-resolved counting of scattered photons alters the state of the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch

We exploit geometric properties of quantum states of light in optical cavities to carry out quantum non-demolition measurements. We generalize the 'mode invisibility' method to obtain information about the Wigner function of a squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Marvellous Onuma-Kalu , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Superposed coherent states are central to quantum technologies, yet their reliable identification remains a challenge, especially in noisy or resource-constrained settings. We introduce a novel, directly measurable criterion for detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Šimon Bräuer , Jan Provazník , Vojtěch Kala , Petr Marek

Optical cat state plays an essential role in quantum computation and quantum metrology. Here, we experimentally quantify quantum coherence of an optical cat state by means of relative entropy and l_1 norm of coherence in Fock basis based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Miao Zhang , Haijun Kang , Meihong Wang , Fengyi Xu , Xiaolong Su , Kunchi Peng

The paradigm of Schr\"{o}dinger's cat illustrates how quantum states preclude the assignment of definite properties to a macroscopic object (realism). In this work we develop a method to investigate the indefiniteness of cat states using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Shane P. Kelly , Eddy Timmermans , S. W. Tsai

Schr\"odinger cat states are useful for many applications, ranging from quantum information processing to high-precision measurements. In this paper we propose a conceptually new method for creating such cat states, based on photon-assisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Jonas Lidal , Jeroen Danon

Schr\"odinger's cat originates from the famous thought experiment querying the counterintuitive quantum superposition of macroscopic objects. As a natural extension, several "cats" (quasi-classical objects) can be prepared into coherent…

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