{
  "id": "quant-ph/0005083",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2000-05-19T13:53:52.000Z",
  "updated": "2000-05-19T13:53:52.000Z",
  "title": "On the generation and identification of optical Schrödinger cats",
  "authors": [
    "M. Genovese",
    "C. Novero"
  ],
  "comment": "accepted for publication",
  "journal": "Phys.Lett. A271 (2000) 48-53",
  "doi": "10.1016/S0375-9601(00)00363-7",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "hep-ph",
    "physics.optics"
  ],
  "abstract": "We discuss the possibility of generating and detecting, by a tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner function, a macroscopic superposition of two coherent states. The superposition state is created using a conditioned measurement on the polarisation of a probe photon entangled to a coherent state. The entanglement is obtained using a Kerr cell inserted in a Mach-Zender interferometer. Some hint about generation of GHZ states is given as well.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2000-05-19T13:53:52.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "optical schrödinger cats",
      "generation",
      "coherent state",
      "identification",
      "superposition state"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 527745
    }
  }
}