Creating Metastable Schrödinger Cat States
- 17 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 75 (3) , 418-421
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.418
Abstract
We propose a scheme using feedback to generate a macroscopic quantum superposition of coherent states in an optical cavity mode which experiences very little decoherence (due to dissipation).Keywords
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