Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2007
Keywords
SCHRODINGER CAT STATES, NONDEMOLITION MEASUREMENT, PHOTON, SUPERPOSITIONS, Optics, Physics
Abstract
We describe a nonlocal method for generating entangled coherent states of a two-mode field wherein the field modes never meet. The proposed method is an extension of an earlier proposal [C. C. Gerry, Phys. Rev. A 59, 4095 (1999)] for the generation of superpositions of coherent states. A single photon injected into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with cross-Kerr media in both arms coupling with two external fields in coherent states produces entangled coherent states upon detection at one of the output ports. We point out that our proposal can be alternatively viewed as a "which path" experiment, and in the case of only one external field, we describe the implementation of a quantum eraser.
Recommended Citation
Gerry, Christopher C. and Grobe, Rainer, "Nonlocal entanglement of coherent states, complementarity, and quantum erasure" (2007). Faculty publications – Physics. 41.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpphys/41
Comments
Originally published in Physical Review A by the American Physical Society.