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Optical Schrödinger cat states generated using cavity Rydberg quantum photonics

  • Hendrik Hegels
  • Mae Eichenberger
  • Gerhard Rempe
  • Stephan Dürr
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Abstract

We introduce cavity Rydberg quantum photonics as a novel platform for generating hybrid entangled states of optical photons. The system achieves world-record sizes of these states and has the potential to produce yet larger states in the future. In the hybrid entangled state produced here, a superposition of two coherent states is entangled with a polarization qubit carried by a photon in another beam path. We perform quantum state tomography of this hybrid entangled state and evaluate various key properties. By optimizing the decoherence we increase the size compared to previous hybrid entangled states, reaching a size of α2= 2.4. Besides the fundamental interest in Schrödinger cat states, this work is interesting because of potential applications in the field of quantum information processing.

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@misc{hegels2026optical,
  title = {{Optical Schrödinger cat states generated using cavity Rydberg quantum photonics}},
  author = {Hendrik Hegels and Mae Eichenberger and Gerhard Rempe and Stephan Dürr},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.27983},
  eprint = {2609.27983},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27983},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Optical Schrödinger cat states generated using cavity Rydberg quantum photonics
AU  - Hendrik Hegels
AU  - Mae Eichenberger
AU  - Gerhard Rempe
AU  - Stephan Dürr
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/23
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.27983
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.27983
AB  - We introduce cavity Rydberg quantum photonics as a novel platform for generating hybrid entangled states of optical photons. The system achieves world-record sizes of these states and has the potential to produce yet larger states in the future. In the hybrid entangled state produced here, a superposition of two coherent states is entangled with a polarization qubit carried by a photon in another beam path. We perform quantum state tomography of this hybrid entangled state and evaluate various key properties. By optimizing the decoherence we increase the size compared to previous hybrid entangled states, reaching a size of α^2= 2.4. Besides the fundamental interest in Schrödinger cat states, this work is interesting because of potential applications in the field of quantum information processing.
ER  -