Chinese Physics Letters

A Scheme for Preparing Schrödinger Cat States with Controllable Manners

Guo Guang-Can, Zheng Shi-Biao

Published Jun 1, 1997• 1 citation

Abstract

A scheme to generate superpositions of coherent states with variable amplitudes, phases and weighting factors is proposed. It provides experimental possibility for preparing an arbitrary Schrödinger cat state.

DOI: 10.1088/0256-307x/14/6/007

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