Coherent scattering of a Multiphoton Quantum Superposition by a Mirror-BEC

Francesco De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino, Chiara Vitelli, Francesco S. Cataliotti

Published 2010-02-10Version 1

We present the proposition of an experiment in which the multiphoton quantum superposition consisting of N= 10^5 particles generated by a quantum-injected optical parametric amplifier (QI-OPA), seeded by a single-photon belonging to an EPR entangled pair, is made to interact with a Mirror-BEC shaped as a Bragg interference structure. The overall process will realize a Macroscopic Quantum Superposition (MQS) involving a microscopic single-photon state of polarization entangled with the coherent macroscopic transfer of momentum to the BEC structure, acting in space-like separated distant places.