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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 78, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012109
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We propose a measure for the size of a quantum superposition of two many-body states with (supposedly) macroscopically distinct properties by counting how many single-particle operations are needed to map one state onto the other. This definition gives sensible results for simple, analytically tractable cases and is consistent with a previous definition restricted to Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like states. We apply our measure to the experimentally relevant, nontrivial example of a superconducting three-junction flux qubit put into a superposition of left- and right-circulating supercurrent states, and we find the size of this superposition to be surprisingly small.
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