Macroscopic quantum states: Measures, fragility, and implementations

F Fröwis, P Sekatski, W Dür, N Gisin… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Large-scale quantum effects have always played an important role in the foundations of
quantum theory. With recent experimental progress and the aspiration for quantum …

Bright squeezed vacuum: Entanglement of macroscopic light beams

MV Chekhova, G Leuchs, M Żukowski - Optics Communications, 2015 - Elsevier
We discuss various methods to create macroscopic (bright) entangled light beams. As an
example, bright squeezed vacuum is considered in detail. This state of light, obtained via …

Generation of hybrid entanglement of light

H Jeong, A Zavatta, M Kang, SW Lee, LS Costanzo… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Entanglement between quantum and classical objects is of special interest in the context of
fundamental studies of quantum mechanics and potential applications for quantum …

Observation of micro–macro entanglement of light

AI Lvovsky, R Ghobadi, A Chandra, AS Prasad… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Schrödinger's famous thought experiment involves a (macroscopic) cat whose quantum
state becomes entangled with that of a (microscopic) decaying nucleus. The creation of such …

Ultrasensitive two-mode interferometry with single-mode number squeezing

L Pezzé, A Smerzi - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
A major challenge of the phase estimation problem is the engineering of high-intensity
entangled probe states. The goal is to significantly enhance above the shot-noise limit the …

Displacement of entanglement back and forth between the micro and macro domains

N Bruno, A Martin, P Sekatski, N Sangouard, RT Thew… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
Quantum theory is often presented as the theory describing the microscopic world, and
admittedly, it has done this extremely well for decades. Nonetheless, the question of whether …

Optomechanical micro-macro entanglement

R Ghobadi, S Kumar, B Pepper, D Bouwmeester… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We propose to create and detect optomechanical entanglement by storing one component
of an entangled state of light in a mechanical resonator and then retrieving it. Using micro …

Entangling macroscopic light states by delocalized photon addition

N Biagi, LS Costanzo, M Bellini, A Zavatta - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We present a scheme, based on the delocalized heralded addition of a single photon, to
entangle two or more distinct field modes, each containing arbitrary light states. A high …

Macroscopic optomechanics from displaced single-photon entanglement

P Sekatski, M Aspelmeyer, N Sangouard - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
Displaced single-photon entanglement is a simple form of optical entanglement, obtained by
sending a photon on a beam splitter and subsequently applying a displacement operation …

Efficient production of large-size optical Schrödinger cat states

EV Mikheev, AS Pugin, DA Kuts, SA Podoshvedov… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We present novel theory of effective realization of large-size optical Schrödinger cat states,
which play an important role for quantum communication and quantum computation in the …