Το work with title Detecting the degree of macroscopic quantumness using an overlap measurement by Jeong Hyunseok, Noh Changsuk, Bae Seunglee, Aggelakis Dimitrios, Ralph Timothy C. is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
H. Jeong, C. Noh, S. Bae, D. G. Angelakis and T. C. Ralph, "Detecting the degree of macroscopic quantumness using an overlap measurement", Jour. of Opt. Soc. of America B, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 3057-3066, 2014. doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.003057
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.31.003057
We investigate how to experimentally detect a recently proposed measure to quantify macroscopic quantum superpositions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 220401 (2011) [CrossRef] ], namely, “macroscopic quantumness” ℐ. Schemes based on overlap measurements for harmonic oscillator states and for qubit states are extensively investigated. Effects of detection inefficiency and coarse-graining are analyzed in order to assess feasibility of the schemes.