Production of Schrödinger macroscopic quantum-superposition states in a Kerr medium
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 47 (6) , 5024-5029
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.47.5024
Abstract
We show how a special class of Schrödinger macroscopic quantum-superposition states can be produced by a coherent field propagating through a Kerr medium. We show that these states are eigenstates of the mth power of the photon-annihilation operator leading also to the possibility of producing these using multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings systems. We further show how superpositions of squeezed coherent states can be produced.Keywords
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