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Preparation and control of a cavity-field state through atom-driven field interaction: towards long-lived mesoscopic states
The preparation of mesoscopic states of the radiation and matter fields
through atom-field interactions has been achieved in recent years and employed
for a range of striking applications in quantum optics. Here we present a
technique for the preparation and control of a cavity mode which, besides
interacting with a two-level atom, is simultaneously submitted to linear and
parametric amplification processes. The role of the amplification-controlling
fields in the achievement of real mesoscopic states, is to produce
highly-squeezed field states and, consequently, to increase both: i) the
distance in phase space between the components of the prepared superpositions
and ii) the mean photon number of such superpositions. When submitting the
squeezed superposition states to the action of similarly squeezed reservoirs,
we demonstrate that under specific conditions the decoherence time of the
states becomes independent of both the distance in phase space between their
components and their mean photon number. An explanation is presented to support
this remarkable result, together with a discussion on the experimental
implementation of our proposal. We also show how to produce number states with
fidelities higher than those derived as circular states