Generation of macroscopic quantum superpositions of optomechanical oscillators by dissipation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Tan, Huatang ^a,b   Bariani, F ^b   Li, Gaoxiang ^a   Meystre, P ^b  

^a CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM; MACROSCOPIC SUPERPOSITIONS; MECHANICAL DAMPING; OPTO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; THREE WAVE MIXING; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84884856018     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.023817     Document Type: Article

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