Creation of macroscopic superpositions of flow states with Bose-Einstein condensates

We present a straightforward scheme for creating macroscopic superpositions of different superfluid flow states of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical lattices. This scheme has the great advantage that all the techniques required are within the reach of current experiments. Furthermore, the relative difficulty of creating superpositions scales favorably with the size of the state. This means that this scheme may be well suited to creating superpositions involving large numbers of particles. Such states may have interesting technological applications such as making quantum-limited measurements of angular momentum