GENERATION OF THE SCHRODINGER-CAT STATE BY CONTINUOUS PHOTODETECTION

被引:45
作者
OGAWA, T
UEDA, M
IMOTO, N
机构
[1] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Basic Research Laboratories, Musahino-shi, Tokyo 180
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1991年 / 43卷 / 11期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.43.6458
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Nonunitary time evolution of an initially highly squeezed state under continuous photon-number measurement is investigated using the quasiprobability distribution. It is found that the measured quantum state bifurcates into two macroscopically distinguishable states upon the detection of a single photon, while preserving purity by feeding back real-time readout information.
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页码:6458 / 6461
页数:4
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