Abstract

There have been several proposals recently for the generation of optical superposition states in various nonlinear processes;^[1] in quantum nondemolition measurements^[2] and in micromaser experiments.^[3] We show that microscopic superposition states can be generated in microwave cavities via the resonant interaction of Rydberg atoms with a single-mode quantized microwave cavity field. We describe the atom-field interaction by the Jaynes-Cummings model of optical resonance.^[4]

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