Anomalous lack of decoherence of the macroscopic quantum superpositions based on phase-covariant quantum cloning

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Sep 4;103(10):100501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.100501. Epub 2009 Sep 1.

Abstract

We show that all macroscopic quantum superpositions (MQS) based on phase-covariant quantum cloning are characterized by an anomalous high resilence to the decoherence processes. The analysis supports the results of recent MQS experiments and leads to conceive a useful conjecture regarding the realization of complex decoherence-free structures for quantum information, such as the quantum computer.