https://doi.org/10.1140/e10053-002-0014-7
Collective atomic spin squeezing and control
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Corresponding author: a pinard@spectro.jussieu.fr
Received:
14
August
2001
Revised:
7
November
2001
Published online: 15 January 2002
Using a quantum theory for an ensemble of two- or three-level atoms driven by electromagnetic fields in an optical cavity, we show that the various spins associated with the atomic ensemble can be squeezed. Two kinds of squeezing are obtained: on the one hand self-spin squeezing when the input fields are coherent ones and the atomic ensemble exhibits a large non-linearity; on the other hand squeezing transfer when one of the incoming fields is squeezed.
PACS: 42.50.Lc – Quantum fluctuations, quantum noise, and quantum jumps / 42.50.Dv – Nonclassical field states; squeezed, antibunched, and sub-Poissonian states; operational definitions of the phase of the field; phase measurements
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2002
