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Physical Review A

Cavity-QED state reduction method to produce atomic Schrödinger-cat states

Christopher C. Gerry, R. Grobe

Published Mar 1, 1998• 29 citations
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Abstract

Collective atomic Schr"odinger-cat states are superpositions of distinct atomic coherent states (or Bloch states). We show how even and odd atomic states can be generated in cavity QED by the use of a dispersive interaction between the atoms and the field along with state reduction.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.57.2247

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