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The Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures are equivalent formulations of quantum mechanics. Here we use the Schrodinger picture to calculate the decoherence that occurs when an optical Schrodinger cat state is passed through a beam splitter.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 J. D. Franson , R. A. Brewster

The theory of quantum propagator and time--dependent integrals of motion in quantum optics is reviewed as well as the properties of Wigner function, Q--function, and coherent state representation. Propagators and wave functions of a free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. I. Man'ko

We study the dissipative dynamics of deformed coherent states superposition. We find that such kind of superposition can be more robust against decoherence than the usual Schrodinger cat states.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefano Mancini , Vladimir I. Man'ko

Squeezed Schr\"odinger cat states are a valuable resource for quantum error correction and quantum computing. In this paper, we investigate the gate for generating such states in the optical regime. Our scheme is based on the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 A. V. Baeva , A. S. Losev , I. V. Sokolov

Optical coherent states are experimentally realizable continuous variable quantum states of which preparation by lasers, as well as its manipulation and monitoring by linear optical gadgets are well established. We propose a strategy to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Ankita Pathak , Madan Singh Chauhan , Ravi S. Singh

The superposition principle is at the heart of quantum mechanics and at the root of many paradoxes arising when trying to extend its predictions to our everyday world. Schroedinger's cat is the prototype of such paradoxes and here, in…

Both discrete and continuous systems can be used to encode quantum information. Most quantum computation schemes propose encoding qubits in two-level systems, such as a two-level atom or an electron spin. Others exploit the use of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 Hilma Vasconcelos , Liliana Sanz , Scott Glancy

Cat states are a valuable resource for quantum metrology applications, promising to enable sensitivity down to the Heisenberg limit. Moreover, Schr\"odinger cat states, based on a coherent superposition of coherent states, show robustness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 S. Zhao , M. G. Krauss , T. Bienaime , S. Whitlock , C. P. Koch , S. Qvarfort , A. Metelmann

We propose a scheme to generate spin cat states, i.e., superpositions of maximally separated quasiclassical states on a single high-dimensional nuclear spin in a solid-state device. We exploit a strong quadrupolar nonlinearity to drive the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Pragati Gupta , Arjen Vaartjes , Xi Yu , Andrea Morello , Barry C. Sanders

The well studied quantum optical Schr\"{o}dinger cat state is a superposition of two distinguishable states, with quantum coherence between these macroscopically distinguishable states being of foundational and, in the context of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Namrata Shukla , Naeem Akhtar , Barry C. Sanders

Circuit quantum electrodynamics ('circuit QED') describes the quantum mechanics and quantum field theory of superconducting electrical circuits operating in the microwave regime near absolute zero temperature. It is the analog of cavity QED…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 S. M. Girvin

We propose a dynamical scheme for deterministically amplifying photonic Schroedinger cat states based on a set of optimal state-transfers. The scheme can be implemented in strongly coupled qubit-cavity systems and is well suited to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Jaewoo Joo , Matthew Elliott , Daniel K. L. Oi , Eran Ginossar , Timothy P. Spiller

Optical Schr\"{o}dinger cat states are non-Gaussian states with applications in quantum technologies, such as for building error-correcting states in quantum computing. Yet the efficient generation of high-fidelity optical Schr\"{o}dinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Haoyuan Luo , Sahand Mahmoodian

We introduce a hybrid machine-learning algorithm for designing quantum optics experiments that produce specific quantum states. Our algorithm successfully found experimental schemes to produce all 5 states we asked it to, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 L. O'Driscoll , R. Nichols , P. A. Knott

Exploiting the cluster of three Bell coherent-states as quantum channel, we presented a scheme wherein quantum-informations encoded in three arbitrary superposed coherent states, i.e., Schrodinger Cat coherent-states are simultaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Ankita Pathak , Ravi S. Singh

We demonstrate an optical method to engineer optical Schr\"odinger cat states (SCSs) of large size beta ranging from beta=2 to beta=3 with high fidelity close to 0.99. Our approach uses the alpha-representation of the SCSs in infinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 Evgeny V. Mikheev , Sergey A. Podoshvedov , Nguyen Ba An

Cat states, as an important resource in the study of macroscopic quantum superposition and quantum information applications, have garnered widespread attention. To date, preparing large-sized optical cat states has remained challenging. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Zheng-Hong Li , Fei Yu , Zhen-Ya Li , M. Al-Amri , M. Suhail Zubairy

We investigate the superposition of coherent states, emphasizing quantum states with distinct Wigner phase-space features relevant to quantum information applications. In this study, we introduce generalized versions of the compass state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Tan Hailin , Naeem Akhtar , Gao Xianlong

We present a simple scheme using two identical cross-phase modulation processes in decoherence environment to generate superpositions of two coherent states with the opposite phases, which are known as cat states. The scheme is shown to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-25 Bing He , Mustansar Nadeem , János A. Bergou

Quantum optomechanics exploits radiation pressure effects inside optical cavities. It can be used to generate quantum states of the center-of-mass motion of massive mechanical objects, thereby opening up a new parameter regime for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 Rainer Kaltenbaek , Markus Aspelmeyer