Quantum Nonlocality and Entanglement of Pair Cat States with Phase Decoherence

Xu, Hang-Shi, Jingbo

Xu Hang-Shi, Jing‐Bo Xu

We investigate the entanglement of pair cat states in the phase damping channel by adopting the log-negativity and then study the possible violations of Bell's inequalities for the pair cat states in terms of the Wigner representation in phase space based upon parity measurement and displacement operation.

J. G. Cramer

Art Hobson

The fully entangled Schrodinger cat state obtained immediately upon measurement of a superposed two state quantum system by a detector is often said to paradoxically predict macroscopically different outcomes simultaneously. However, nonlocal interferometry experiments and their accompanying quantum theoretical analyses, testing momentum entangled photon pairs over the full range of phases, demonstrate that the cat state does not fit this description. This state instead represents two nonlocally coherent correlations between its subsystems. Even if the detector is a cat, this state is not paradoxical. Furthermore, standard quantum theory correctly predicts the experimentally observed nonparadoxical outcomes. Thus both quantum theory and quantum experiments show there is no Schrodinger cat paradox associated with measurement. This resolves the problem of definite outcomes and, with it, the measurement problem. Upon entanglement with a detector, superpositions collapse nonlocally and unitarily to one definite macroscopic outcome. No special collapse postulate is needed.

张业奇, 许晶波

Mohammad Mehdi Sahrapour, Nancy Makri