Tuesday, July 24, 2012

1207.5468 (L. Slodička et al.)

Atom-atom entanglement by single-photon detection    [PDF]

L. Slodička, G. Hétet, N. Röck, P. Schindler, M. Hennrich, R. Blatt
A scheme for entangling distant atoms is realized, as proposed in the seminal paper by Cabrillo et al. [Phys. Rev. A 59, 1025 (1999)]. The protocol is based on quantum interference and detection of a single photon scattered from two effectively one meter distant laser-cooled and trapped atomic ions. The detection of a single photon heralds entanglement of two internal states of the trapped ions with high rate and with a fidelity limited mostly by atomic motion. Control of the entangled state phase is demonstrated by changing the path length of the single-photon interferometer.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5468

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