Transient macroscopic quantum superposition states in degenerate parametric oscillation using squeezed reservoir fields
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 52 (3) , 2388-2391
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.52.2388
Abstract
We predict the effect on the intracavity quadrature-phase-amplitude probability distribution of coupling the signal mode of a degenerate parametric oscillator to a squeezed bath. Solutions in a transient regime reveal interference fringes which are indicative of the formation of a ‘‘Schrödinger cat’’ state. The use of the squeezed reservoir allows fringes to be predicted for smaller nonlinearity-to-loss ratios.Keywords
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