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Scheme to probe the decoherence of a macroscopic object
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We propose a quantum optical version of Schr\"odinger's famous gedanken experiment in which the state of a microscopic system (a cavity field) becomes entangled with and disentangled from the state of a massive object (a movable mirror). Despite the fact that a mixture of Schr\"odinger cat states is produced during the evolution (due to the fact that the macroscopic mirror starts off in a thermal state), this setup allows us to systematically probe the rules by which a superposition of spatially separated states of a macroscopic object decoheres. The parameter regime required to test environment-induced decoherence models is found to be close to those currently realizable, while that required to detect gravitationally induced collapse is well beyond current technology.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bose, S., Jacobs, K., & Knight, P. L.
- Venue
- Physical Review A
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1999-05-01
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 3204-3210
- ISSN
- 0556-2791 (ISSN-L)
- 1050-2947
- 1094-1622
- OpenAlex
- W1998298899
- Cited by
- 281
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 4.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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