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Schrodinger cat states of two bosonic modes

Anna Napoli

Published Jan 1, 2000• 0 citations

Abstract

The possibility of generating bosonic bimodal Schrödinger cat states is briefly demonstrated. The experimental scheme here presented relies on the existence of an intrinsically nonclassical effect stemming from the granularity of the quantized electromagnetic field.

DOI: 10.1063/1.1303359

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