
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zheng, Shi-Biao 
T1  - Collapses and revivals of the coherence of a mesoscopic superposition of motional states.
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 2000
VL  - 53
IS  - 3
SP  - 413
EP  - 419
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH99056 
N2  - A scheme is proposed to observe the collapses and revivals of a mesoscopic superposition of coherent states in the motion of a trapped ion. In the scheme the ion motion in the x-axis is first prepared in a Schr&ouml;dinger cat state, and then coupled to the motion in the z-axis. With the vibrational excitation exchange between the two modes, the mesoscopic quantum coherence collapses and revives periodically, providing an example for complementarity. 
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