Schr\"odinger's cat state of optical parallel universes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12438v2
• Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 09:44:45 GMT
• Title: Schr\"odinger's cat state of optical parallel universes
• Authors: Yu-Qing Cui, Tian-Ming Zhao, Rong-Xin Miao, Jin-Dong Wang, Huanyang Chen
• Abstract summary: We propose two realizable experimental schemes, which enable to explore the mysterious parallel universes' by a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The first one is based on an atomic ensemble in a superposition state, which is a fat Schr"odinger's cat state. The second one is to prepare a photon in a superposition of different paths, where each path lies in an optical parallel universe.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Parallel worlds are imaginative ideas in quantum mechanics and cosmology. The superpositions of parallel worlds are novel states of quantum gravity and have no classical correspondences generally. In this letter, we investigate the superposition or the Schr\"odinger's cat state of optical parallel worlds, which could be realized in laboratory and may shed some light on the detection of parallel universes in a real world. We propose two realizable experimental schemes, which enable to explore the mysterious `parallel universes' by a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The first one is based on an atomic ensemble in a superposition state, which is a fat Schr\"odinger's cat state. The second one is to prepare a photon in a superposition of different paths, where each path lies in an optical parallel universe.

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