SINGLE-ATOM INTERFERENCE METHOD FOR GENERATING FOCK STATES

被引:57
作者
DOMOKOS, P
JANSZKY, J
ADAM, P
机构
[1] Hungarian Acad of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1994年 / 50卷 / 04期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.50.3340
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
An atomic interference method is presented that can be used to construct arbitrary superpositions of coherent states with equal mean photon number in a single-mode cavity by sending only one atom through the apparatus. The method is suitable to generate any quantum state that has a one-dimensional coherent state representation on a circle in phase space. This method is demonstrated in the case of generating Fock states.
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页码:3340 / 3344
页数:5
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