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View SchemaEntanglement of macroscopic test masses and the Standard Quantum Limit in laser interferometry
| Authors | Helge Mueller-Ebhardt, Henning Rehbein, Roman Schnabel, Karsten Danzmann, Yanbei Chen |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0702258 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702258 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.013601 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 013601 (2008) |
Abstract
We show that the generation of entanglement of two heavily macroscopic mirrors with masses of up to several kilograms are feasible with state of the art techniques of high-precision laser interferometry. The basis of such a demonstration would be a Michelson interferometer with suspended mirrors and simultaneous homodyne detections at both interferometer output ports. We present the connection between the generation of entanglement and the Standard Quantum Limit (SQL) for a free mass. The SQL is a well-known reference limit in operating interferometers for gravitational-wave detection and provides a measure of when macroscopic entanglement can be observed in the presence of realistic decoherence processes.
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