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Under the single-photon strong-coupling regime, the interaction between the atom\u2013cavity\u2013oscillator system can induce the mesoscopic mechanical oscillator to Schr\u00f6dinger cat states. Comparing to previous schemes, the proposed proposal consider the second order approximation on the Lamb\u2013Dicke parameter, which is more universal in the experiment. 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