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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

The generation of coherent superposition of distinct physical systems and the construction of robust entangled states under decoherence are the most experimental challenges of quantum technologies. In this work, we investigate the behaviors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Abdessamad Belfakir , Adil Belhaj , Yassine Hassouni

Disentanglement and loss of quantum correlations due to one global collective noise effect are described for two-qubit Schr\"odinger cat and Werner states of a four level trapped ion quantum system. Once the Jaynes-Cummings ionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Victor A. S. V. Bittencourt , Alex E. Bernardini

Quantum metrology with nonclassical states offers a promising route to improved precision in physical measurements. The quantum effects of Schr{\"o}dinger-cat superpositions or entanglements allow measurement uncertainties to reach below…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Y. A. Yang , W. -T. Luo , J. -L. Zhang , S. -Z. Wang , Chang-Ling Zou , T. Xia , Z. -T. Lu

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-cat (SC) states are an important resource for continuous-variable quantum computing and quantum metrology. In our previous work [JOSA B, 42, 2 (2025)], we proposed a probabilistic protocol for generating bright squeezed SC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 V. L. Gorshenin

Experiments are described in which a single, harmonically bound, beryllium ion in a Paul trap is put into Fock, thermal, coherent, squeezed, and Schroedinger cat states. Experimental determinations of the density matrix and the Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. M. Itano , C. Monroe , D. M. Meekhof , D. Leibfried , B. E. King , D. J. Wineland

We introduce a set of coherent states which are associated with quantum systems governed by a trilinear boson Hamiltonian. These states are produced by the action of a nonunitary displacement operator on a reference state and can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Brif

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

Quantum superpositions of distinct coherent states in a single-mode harmonic oscillator, known as "cat states", have been an elegant demonstration of Schrodinger's famous cat paradox. Here, we realize a two-mode cat state of electromagnetic…

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

We theoretically investigate the generation of non-Gaussian quantum states, specifically Schr\"odinger cat-like states (SCLSs), via degenerate dual-pump spontaneous four-wave mixing in a $\chi^{(3)}$-based microring resonator. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ranjit Singh , Alexander E. Teretenkov

By applying a microwave drive to a specially designed Josephson circuit, we have realized an elementary quantum optics model, the squeezed Kerr oscillator. This model displays, as the squeezing amplitude is increased, a cross-over from a…

We study the possibility to create many-particle Schr\"odinger cat-like states by using a Feshbach resonance to reverse the sign of the scattering length of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a double-well potential. To address the issue…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. Huang , M. G. Moore

Chimera states are complex spatiotemporal patterns in networks of identical oscillators, characterized by the coexistence of synchronized and desynchronized dynamics. Here we propose to extend the phenomenon of chimera states to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 V. M. Bastidas , I. Omelchenko , A. Zakharova , E. Schöll , T. Brandes

Arrays of identical oscillators can display a remarkable spatiotemporal pattern in which phase-locked oscillators coexist with drifting ones. Discovered two years ago, such "chimera states" are believed to be impossible for locally or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-06-13 Daniel M. Abrams , Steven H. Strogatz

A scheme for generating Schr\"{o}dinger cat-like states of a single-mode optical field by means of conditional measurement is proposed. Feeding into a beam splitter a squeezed vacuum and counting the photons in one of the output channels,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Dakna , T. Anhut , T. Opartny , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

We study and experimentally implement a double-slit quantum eraser in the presence of a controlled decoherence mechanism. A two-photon state, produced in a spontaneous parametric down conversion process, is prepared in a maximally entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. A. Torres-Ruiz , G. Lima , A. Delgado , S. Pádua , C. Saavedra

Quantum phase transitions and observables of interest of the ground state in the Tavis-Cummings model are analyzed, for any number of atoms, by using a tensorial product of coherent states. It is found that this "trial" state constitutes a…

Coherent states possess a regularized path integral and gives a natural relation between classical variables and quantum operators. Recent work by Klauder and Whiting has included extended variables, that can be thought of as gauge fields,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. C. Ashworth