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Physical systems usually exhibit quantum behavior, such as superpositions and entanglement, only when they are sufficiently decoupled from a lossy environment. Paradoxically, a specially engineered interaction with the environment can…

We prepare single phonon Fock state of mechanical mode in optomechanical system based on photon subtraction process in the linear regime of optomechanical interaction. The correlation set between cavity and field modes is utilized to recast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 M. Miskeen Khan , M. Javed Akram , F. Saif

We demonstrate the simultaneous quantum state reconstruction of the spectral modes of the light field emitted by a continuous wave degenerate optical parametric amplifier. The scheme is based on broadband measurement of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerd Breitenbach , Fabrizio Illuminati , Stephan Schiller , Jurgen Mlynek

Working from the Schroedinger's Cat paradigm, a series of experiments are constructed. The Bedford-Wang experiment is examined, and the ambiguity in its meaning is addressed. We eliminate this ambiguity by abandoning the idea of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin S. Altschul , Brett D. Altschul

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

Particle distributions in squeezed states, even and odd coherent states are given in terms of multivariable Hermite polynomials. The Q--function and Wigner function for nonclassical field states are discussed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 V. I. Man'ko

In his 1935 Gedankenexperiment, Erwin Schr\"{o}dinger imagined a poisonous substance which has a 50% probability of being released, based on the decay of a radioactive atom. As such, the life of the cat and the state of the poison become…

The motion of two attractively interacting atoms in an optical lattice is investigated in the presence of a scattering potential. The initial wavefunction can be prepared by using tightly bound exact two-particle eigenfunction for vanishing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-02-25 Christoph Weiss

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

Creation of high fidelity photonic quantum states in the continuous variable regime is indispensable for the implementation of quantum technologies universally. However, this is a challenging task as it requires higher nonlinearity or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Devibala Esakkimuthu , Basherrudin Mahmud Ahmed Abduljaffer

Theoretical analysis is given for a two-photon subtraction from a continuous wave (CW) squeezed vacuum with finite time separation between two detection events. In the CW photon subtraction process, the generated states are inevitably…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro Takeoka , Hiroki Takahashi , Masahide Sasaki

A Macro-state consisting of N= 3.5 x 10^4 photons in a quantum superposition and entangled with a far apart single-photon state (Micro-state) is generated. Precisely, an entangled photon pair is created by a nonlinear optical process, then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Francesco De Martini , Fabio Sciarrino , Chiara Vitelli

We demonstrate that superpositions of coherent and displaced Fock states, also referred to as generalized Schr\"odinger cats cats, can be created by application of a nonlinear displacement operator which is a deformed version of the Glauber…

We show the utility of the weak value amplification to observe the quantum interference between two close lying atomic coherent states in a post-selected atomic cat state, produced in a system of $N$ identical two-level atoms weakly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Sumei Huang , Girish S. Agarwal

The Wigner quasiprobability distribution of a narrowband single-photon state was reconstructed by quantum state tomography using photon-number-resolving measurements with transition-edge sensors (TES) at system efficiency 58(2)%. This…

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 apply the Wigner function formalism to partial Bell-state analysis using polarization entanglement produced in parametric down conversion. Two-photon statistics at a beam-splitter are reproduced by a wavelike description with zeropoint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-24 A. Casado , S. Guerra , J. Plácido

We show how an idealised measurement procedure can condense photons from two modes into one, and how, by feeding forward the results of the measurement, it is possible to generate efficiently superpositions of components for which only one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hugo Cable , Jonathan P. Dowling

In this paper we investigate the quantum phase properties for the coherent superposition states (Schr\"odinger-cat states) for two-mode multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings model in the framework of the Pegg-Barnett formalism. We also demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Faisal A. A. El-Orany , M. H. Mahran , M. R. B. Wahiddin , A. M. Hashim

We present a multimode theory of non-Gaussian operation induced by an imperfect on/off-type photon detector on a splitted beam from a wideband squeezed light. The events are defined for finite time duration $T$ in the time domain. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Sasaki , S. Suzuki