Creation and manipulation of Schrödinger cat states based on semiclassical predictions

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Main Authors: Veselkova, N. G., Goncharov, Roman, Kiselev, Alexei D.
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Published: 2025
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author Veselkova, N. G.
Goncharov, Roman
Kiselev, Alexei D.
author_facet Veselkova, N. G.
Goncharov, Roman
Kiselev, Alexei D.
contents We consider the generation of Schr{ö}dinger cat states using a quantum measurement-induced logical gate where entanglement between the input state of the target oscillator and the Fock state of the ancillary system produced by the quantum non-demolition entangling $\hat{C}_Z$ operation is combined with the homodyne measurement. We utilize the semiclassical approach to construct both the input-output mapping of the field variables in the phase space and the wave function of the output state. This approach is found to predict that the state at the gate output can be represented by a minimally disturbed cat-like state which is a superposition of two copies of the initial state symmetrically displaced by momentum variable. For the target oscillator prepared in the coherent state, we show that the fidelity between the exact solution for the gate output state and the ``perfect'' Schr{ö}dinger cat reconstructed from the semiclassical theory can reach high values exceeding 0.99.
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spellingShingle Creation and manipulation of Schrödinger cat states based on semiclassical predictions
Veselkova, N. G.
Goncharov, Roman
Kiselev, Alexei D.
Quantum Physics
We consider the generation of Schr{ö}dinger cat states using a quantum measurement-induced logical gate where entanglement between the input state of the target oscillator and the Fock state of the ancillary system produced by the quantum non-demolition entangling $\hat{C}_Z$ operation is combined with the homodyne measurement. We utilize the semiclassical approach to construct both the input-output mapping of the field variables in the phase space and the wave function of the output state. This approach is found to predict that the state at the gate output can be represented by a minimally disturbed cat-like state which is a superposition of two copies of the initial state symmetrically displaced by momentum variable. For the target oscillator prepared in the coherent state, we show that the fidelity between the exact solution for the gate output state and the ``perfect'' Schr{ö}dinger cat reconstructed from the semiclassical theory can reach high values exceeding 0.99.
title Creation and manipulation of Schrödinger cat states based on semiclassical predictions
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09318