Abstract
We describe and compare two proposals for creating macroscopic superpositions using single-photon optomechanical systems. The realization of the proposed experiments poses major technological challenges, which we examine. Reaching the quantum ground state is essential for both schemes. We present experimental results on optical cooling, which provides a way to reach the quantum ground state for low frequency optomechanical resonators.
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Classical noise sources may place further limitations on the minimum phonon number.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support by National Science Foundation grants PHY-1206118 and DMR-0960331, Marie Curie EXT-CT-2006-042580, and NWO VICI grant 680-47-604. A portion of this work was done in the UCSB Nanofabrication Facility, part of the NSF-funded NNIN network.
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Pepper, B., Sonin, P., Jeffrey, E., Eerkens, H., Man, S.d., Bouwmeester, D. (2014). Towards Macroscopic Superpositions via Single-photon Optomechanics. In: Andersson, E., Öhberg, P. (eds) Quantum Information and Coherence. Scottish Graduate Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04063-9_3
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