{
  "id": "1807.03194",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-07-09T14:35:16.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-07-09T14:35:16.000Z",
  "title": "Proposal for a Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment with Massive Mechanical Resonators",
  "authors": [
    "Wei Qin",
    "Adam Miranowicz",
    "Guilu Long",
    "J. Q. You",
    "Franco Nori"
  ],
  "comment": "22 pages, 8 figures",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present and analyze an experimentally-feasible implementation of a macroscopic quantum delayed-choice experiment to test a quantum wave-particle superposition on massive mechanical resonators. In our approach, the electronic spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy impurity is employed to control the coherent coupling between the mechanical modes of two carbon nanotubes. We demonstrate that a mechanical phonon can be in a coherent superposition of wave and particle, thus exhibiting both behaviors at the same time. Furthermore, we discuss the mechanical noise tolerable in our proposal and predict a critical temperature below which the morphing between wave and particle states can be effectively observed in the presence of environment-induced fluctuations.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-07-09T14:35:16.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "massive mechanical resonators",
      "macroscopic quantum delayed-choice experiment",
      "quantum wave-particle superposition",
      "single nitrogen-vacancy impurity",
      "electronic spin"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 22,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}