Quantum switches and nonlocal microwave fields

Authors :: Jean-Michel Raimond
Abdelhamid Maali
Serge Haroche
Luiz Davidovich
Michel Brune
Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Hertzienne de l'ENS (LSH-ENS)
École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)
Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 1993, 71 (15), pp.2360. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2360⟩
Publication Year :: 1993
Publisher :: HAL CCSD, 1993.
Abstract: A scheme to realize an optical switch with quantum coherence between its ``open'' and ``closed'' states is presented. It involves a single atom in a superposition of circular Rydberg states crossing a high Q cavity. A combination of switches could be used to prepare a quantum superposition of coherent microwave field states located simultaneously in two cavities. Such nonclassical states and their decoherence due to cavity dissipation could be studied by performing atom correlation experiments.

Language :: English
ISSN :: 00319007 and 10797114
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 1993, 71 (15), pp.2360. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2360⟩
Accession number :: edsair.doi.dedup.....99298b5d2251488d593f721839fedc82
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2360⟩