CONDITIONAL PREPARATION OF \chi ⁽²⁾ MACROSCOPIC ENTANGLED STATES
Podoshvedov S.A.

Received: September 26, 2005

PACS: 03.65.Ud, 42.50.Dv

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Two experimental arrangements consisting of coupled spontaneous parametric down-converters with type-I phase matching pumped simultaneously by a powerful optical field in a coherent state through the balanced beam splitter and linear optical elements are proposed for conditional preparation of macroscopic entangled states in output pumping modes of the studied system. Successful generation of the macroscopic entangled state in the pumping modes is unambiguously heralded by coincident detection of two photons in the generated signal and idler modes of the system. We calculate the amount of entanglement and success probabilities to observe the χ ⁽²⁾ macroscopic entangled states in the total wave function. We show that the proposed schemes can be used to obtain a new type of macroscopic entangled states.