Optomechanical Schrödinger cats - a case for space
- Author(s)
- Rainer Kaltenbaek, Markus Aspelmeyer
- Abstract
Quantum optomechanics exploits radiation pressure effects inside optical cavities. It can be used to generate quantum states of the center-of-mass motion of massive mechanical objects, thereby opening up a new parameter regime for macroscopic quantum experiments. The challenging experimental conditions to maintain and observe quantum coherence for increasingly large objects may require a space environment rather than an earth-bound laboratory. We introduce a possible space experiment to study the wave-packet expansion of massive objects. This forms the basis for Schrödinger cat states of unprecedented size and mass.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- Pages
- 123-134
- No. of pages
- 12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4171/121-1/6
- Publication date
- 2013
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics, 103019 Mathematical physics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/20b6f94d-818e-4d94-b7ea-592a80ff13b8