Macroscopicity in an optomechanical matter-wave interferometer
arXiv:1407.5196 · doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2014.06.006
Abstract
We analyse a proposal that we have recently put forward for an interface between matter-wave and optomechanical technologies from the perspective of macroscopic quantumness. In particular, by making use of a measure of macroscopicity in quantum superpositions that is particularly well suited for continuous variables systems, we demonstrate the existence of working points for our interface at which a quantum mechanical superposition of genuinely mesoscopic states is achieved. Our proposal thus holds the potential to affirm itself as a viable atom-to-mechanics transducer of quantum coherences.
arXiv commentAccepted for publication in Optics Communications, special issue on "Macroscopic Quantumness: Theory and Applications in Optical Sciences"
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