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Optical Feshbach resonance is capable of inducing spatially varying interactions in ultra-cold atoms. Its applications to pancake-shaped clouds of bosons and fermions enable one to study several fresh phenomena. We examine possibilities of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Chih-Chun Chien

A theory of position of massive bodies is proposed that results in an observable quantum behavior of geometry at the Planck scale, $t_P$. Departures from classical world lines in flat spacetime are described by Planckian noncommuting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Craig J. Hogan

Macroscopic mechanical qubits are fundamental both to test the classical-quantum boundary and present suitable candidates for quantum information processing. Motivated by these, we propose a feasible probabilistic scheme to generate an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Víctor Montenegro , Raúl Coto , Vitalie Eremeev , Miguel Orszag

We propose a robust scheme for generating macroscopic superposition states of spin or motion with the aid of a single photon. Shaping the wave packet of the photon enables high-fidelity preparation of non-classical states of matter even in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Emily J. Davis , Zhaoyou Wang , Amir H. Safavi-Naeini , Monika H. Schleier-Smith

Quantum entanglement provides a novel way to test short-distance quantum physics in a non-relativistic regime. We provide entanglement-based protocols to potentially test the magnetically induced dipole-dipole interaction and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 Ryan J. Marshman , Sougato Bose , Andrew Geraci , Anupam Mazumdar

Precision measurement of small separations between two atoms or molecules has been of interest since the early days of science. Here, we discuss a scheme which yields spatial information on a system of two identical atoms placed in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Tao Chang , Joerg Evers , Marlan O. Scully , M. Suhail Zubairy

An interferometric imaging technique has been proposed to instantly measure the diameter of individual spherical dust particles suspended in a gas discharge plasma. The technique is based on the defocused image analysis of both spherical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 M. Chaudhuri , V. Nosenko , H. M. Thomas

This study presents a mathematical model of the spatial and rotational motion of a nanodiamond in an inverted harmonic potential to create a macroscopic quantum spatial superposition. The model is based on the Stern-Gerlach Interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ryan Rizaldy , Tian Zhou , Run Zhou , Anupam Mazumdar

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel detection method that significantly improves the precision of real-time measurement of the three-dimensional displacement of a levitated dipolar scatterer. Our technique relies on spatial…

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

We propose a scheme to prepare macroscopic quantum superpositions of motion in optomachanical nano- or micromechanical oscillators quadratically coupled to an intracavity field. The nonlinear optomechanical coupling leads to an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Huatang Tan , F. Bariani , Gaoxiang Li , P. Meystre

The counterintuitive features of quantum physics challenge many common-sense assumptions. In an interferometric quantum eraser experiment, one can actively choose whether or not to erase which-path information, a particle feature, of one…

A phase controlled wave packet, recently used in experiment of wave packet interferometry of adiatomic molecule, is investigated to obtain mesoscopic superposition structures, useful in quantum metrology. This analysis provides a new way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Suranjana Ghosh

We report an experimental realization of the quantum paradox of the separation of a single photon from one of its properties (the so-called "quantum Cheshire cat"). We use a modified Sagnac interferometer with displaced paths to produce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 James M. Ashby , Peter D. Schwarz , Maximilian Schlosshauer

Motivated by an intention to apply partial wave analysis to systems containing photons, we construct eigenvectors of the distance of separation between two photons. A choice is made that makes the case of two photons most closely resemble…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-17 Scott E. Hoffmann

We propose a multimodal fusion network (MFN) for precise micro-displacement measurement using a modified Michelson interferometer. The model resolves the intrinsic half-wave displacement ambiguity that limits conventional single-wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Zixing Jia , Jiawei Li , Ziping Chen , Xin Li

Spin-momentum locking is an intrinsic property of surface electromagnetic fields and its study has led to the discovery of photonic spin lattices and diverse applications. Previously, dispersion was ignored in the spin-momentum locking,…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-08 Peng Shi , Xinrui Lei , Qiang Zhang , Heng Li , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

Wave packets provide a well established and versatile tool for studying time-dependent effects in molecular physics. Here, we demonstrate the application of wave packets to mesoscopic nanodevices at low temperatures. The electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-09 Tobias Kramer , Christoph Kreisbeck , Viktor Krueckl

In papers on primary state diffusion (Percival 1994, 1995), numerical estimates suggested that fluctuations in the space-time metric on the scale of the Planck time (10^-44s) could be detected using atom interferometers. In this paper we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ian C. Percival , Walter T. Strunz

We present a theoretical model of matter-wave diffraction through a material nanostructure. This model is based on the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation, which goes beyond the standard semi-classical…