Entangled Coherent States with Variable Weighting |
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| Authors: | Bruce Wielinga Barry C. Sanders |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics , The University of Queensland , Queensland, 4072, Australia;2. School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics , Macquarie University , New South Wales, 2109, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Entangled coherent states, with arbitrary weighting of the two product coherent states in the superposition, might be produced by incorporating an optical bistable device in a coupled cavity configuration. This scheme is contrasted with the entangled coherent states that arise due to interaction in an optical Kerr medium and produce only equally weighted entanglements. The entanglement is shown to occur, not between coherent states, but between states which closely approximate coherent states. An interaction which does produce entanglement between true coherent states is introduced but is shown to be unphysical. |
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