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View SchemaOn the generation and identification of optical Schr\"odinger cats
| Authors | M. Genovese, C. Novero |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0005083 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0005083 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00363-7 |
| Journal | Phys.Lett. A271 (2000) 48-53 |
Abstract
We discuss the possibility of generating and detecting, by a tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner function, a macroscopic superposition of two coherent states. The superposition state is created using a conditioned measurement on the polarisation of a probe photon entangled to a coherent state. The entanglement is obtained using a Kerr cell inserted in a Mach-Zender interferometer. Some hint about generation of GHZ states is given as well.
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