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Echoes of a Squeezed Oscillator
Roberto Merlin, Andrea Bianchini
Pulses applied to an inhomogeneously broadened set of harmonic oscillators, previously prepared in squeezed states, can lead to a recovery of coherence, manifesting itself as echoe…
A Heuristic Approach to the Quantum Measurement Problem: How to Distinguish Particle Detectors from Ordinary Objects
R. Merlin
Elementary particle detectors fall broadly into only two classes: phase-transformation devices, such as the bubble chamber, and charge-transfer devices like the Geiger-Mueller tube…
An Exactly Solvable Model of an Avalanche-Type Measuring Device: Macroscopic Distinctiveness and Wavefunction Collapse
R. Merlin
A quantum many-body model is presented with features similar to those of certain particle detectors. The energy spectrum contains a single metastable 'ready'-state and macroscopica…
All Optical Implementation of Multi-Spin Entanglement in a Semiconductor Quantum Well
J. Bao, A. V. Bragas, J. K. Furdyna +1
We use ultrafast optical pulses and coherent techniques to create spin entangled states of non-interacting electrons bound to donors (at least three) and at least two Mn2+ ions in…