Classical Control of Quantized Fields: Cavity Qed and the Photon Pistol

• Authors: J. Eberly , C. Law
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

By using the double-lambda configuration of energy levels and three classical fields, an atom or ion in a high-Q resonant cavity can be manipulated to create a single-mode quantum state in the cavity that is an arbitrary combination of Fock states for that mode. The same principles of operation can be applied to a cavity with much lower Q in order to produce a "photon pistol", a device that "shoots" one and only one photon when a trigger is pulled, and emits no photons at other times.

Keywords

EN

42.50.Dv; 42.50.Ct; 32.80.Qk

Discipline

• 42.50.Ct: Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments
• 32.80.Qk: Coherent control of atomic interactions with photons
• 42.50.Dv: Quantum state engineering and measurements(see also 03.65.Ud Entanglement and quantum nonlocality, e.g., EPR paradox, Bells inequalities, GHZ states, etc.)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1998
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-62

Dates

published

1998-01

Contributors

author

J. Eberly

• Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627, USA

author

C. Law

• Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627, USA

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.93.55