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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

Utilizing an adiabatic approximation method a bipartite qudit-oscillator Hamiltonian is explicitly studied for low spin values in both strong and ultrastrong coupling regimes. The quasiprobability densities on the hybrid factorized phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 M. Balamurugan , R. Chakrabarti , B. Virgin Jenisha , V. Yogesh

Quantum spins of mesoscopic size are a well-studied playground for engineering non-classical states. If the spin represents the collective state of an ensemble of qubits, its non-classical behavior is linked to entanglement between the…

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 consider a semiconducting carbon nanotube (CNT) laying on a ferromagnetic insulating sub-strate with one end depassing the substrate and suspended over a metallic gate. We assume that the polarised substrate induces an exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-27 F. Pistolesi , R. Shekhter

Pure states are usually used to observe quantum phenomena. In this study, we show that a quantum superposition of spatially displaced mixed cat states can be generated within an optical waveguide via nonparaxial unitary evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 N. I. Petrov

Long-range interactions are essential for large-scale quantum computation and quantum interconnections. Cavities provide a promising avenue to achieve long-range interaction by enhancing the coupling of remote qubits through shared cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Chang Li

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the generation of superposition of coherent states with opposite phases, the so-called photonic Schrodinger-cat states. These experiments are very challenging and so far, cats…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Oudot , P. Sekatski , F. Fröwis , N. Gisin , N. Sangouard

We study the dynamics of spin valves consisting of two layers of magnetic insulators separated by a normal metal in the macrospin model. A current through the spacer generates a spin Hall current that can actuate the magnetization via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Hans Skarsvåg , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

We present an efficient scheme to generate two-mode SU(2) macroscopic quantum superposition (Schr\"odinger cat) states, entangled number states and entangled coherent states for the vibrational motion of an ion trapped in a two-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xu-Bo Zou , Jaewan Kim , Hai-Woong Lee

The resonant enhancement of mechanical and optical interaction in optomechanical cavities enables their use as extremely sensitive displacement and force detectors. In this work we demonstrate a hybrid magnetometer that exploits the…

The simple resonant Rabi oscillation of a two-level system in a single-mode coherent field reveals complex features at the mesoscopic scale, with oscillation collapses and revivals. Using slow circular Rydberg atoms interacting with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 F. Assemat , D. Grosso , A. Signoles , A. Facon , I. Dotsenko , S. Haroche , J. M. Raimond , M. Brune , S. Gleyzes

We propose a quantum state readout mechanism of a weakly coupled qubit in dispersive regime. The hybrid system consists of ferromagnetic insulator and a superconducting qubit in a microwave cavity. The enhancement of the measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Vahram L. Grigoryan , Ke Xia

Sensitivity in metrology without entanglement is limited by the standard quantum limit (SQL). Recent studies have found that the Heisenberg-limited scaling, the ultimate sensitivity in quantum metrology, can be achieved by generalized cat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Mamiko Tatsuta , Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Hiroki Kuji , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Akira Shimizu

On a lattice composed of triangular plaquettes where antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between localized spins cannot be simultaneously satisfied, the system becomes geometrically frustrated with magnetically disordered phases…

Quantum correlations present in a broadband two-line squeezed microwave state can induce entanglement in a spatially separated bipartite system consisting of either two single qubits or two qubit ensembles. By using an appropriate master…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Angela Viviana Gómez , Ferney Javier Rodríguez , Luis Quiroga , Juan José García-Ripoll

The controlled generation and the protection of entanglement is key to quantum simulation and quantum computation. At the single-mode level, protocols based on photonic cat states hold strong promise as they present unprecedentedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 José Lebreuilly , Camille Aron , Christophe Mora

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

We explore the density and spin self-ordering of driven spin-$1/2$ collisionless fermionic atoms coupled to the electromagnetic fields of a ring resonator. The two spin states are two-photon Raman-coupled via a pair of degenerate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-03 Elvia Colella , Stefan Ostermann , Wolfgang Niedenzu , Farokh Mivehvar , Helmut Ritsch

We show that a relativistic version of Schrodinger cat states, here called Dirac cat states, can be built in relativistic Landau levels when an external magnetic field couples to a relativistic spin 1/2 charged particle. Under suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Bermudez , M. A. Martin-Delgado , E. Solano