https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e20020044
A single atom-based generation of Bell states of two cavities
INFM, MURST and Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche ed Astronomiche, via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Corresponding author: a messina@fisica.unipa.it
Received:
31
July
2001
Revised:
9
October
2001
Published online: 15 March 2002
A new conditional scheme for generating Bell states of two spatially separated high-Q cavities is reported. Our method is based on the passage of one atom only through the two cavities. A distinctive feature of our treatment is that it incorporates from the very beginning the unavoidable presence of fluctuations in the atom-cavity interaction times. The possibility of successfully implementing our proposal against cavity losses and atomic spontaneous decay is carefully discussed.
PACS: 42.50.-p – Quantum optics / 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
