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1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
I present a general scheme through which the evidence of a superposition involving distinct states of a mesoscopic system can be probed. The scheme relies on a single qubit being coupled to a mesoscopic harmonic oscillator in such a way that it can be used to both prepare and probe a superposition of states of the oscillator. Two potentially realizable implementations, one with a single flux qubit coupled to an LC circuit, and the other with a single ion-trap qubit coupled to the collective motion of several ions, are proposed.
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