PREPARATION OF FOCK STATES BY OBSERVATION OF QUANTUM JUMPS IN AN ION TRAP

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作者
CIRAC, JI
BLATT, R
PARKINS, AS
ZOLLER, P
机构
[1] UNIV COLORADO,DEPT PHYS,BOULDER,CO 80309
[2] UNIV CASTILLA LA MANCHA,FAC CIENCIAS QUIM,DEPT FIS APLICADA,E-13071 CIUDAD REAL,SPAIN
[3] INST LASER PHYS 1,W-2000 HAMBURG 36,GERMANY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.762
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We propose a technique for the preparation of Fock states of a harmonic oscillator strongly coupled to a single two-level atomic transition based on the observation of quantum jumps. Examples are taken from the fields of cavity QED and ion trapping, where photon number states and number states of the quantized atomic motion may be prepared, respectively.
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