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arXiv:2204.03891 · Annalen der Physik

Direct Measurement of Atomic Entanglement via Cavity Photon Statistics

Nilakantha Meher, Mishkatul Bhattacharya, Anand K. Jha

Published May 4, 2022• 1 citation
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Abstract

Abstract An experimental scheme for the measurement of entanglement between two two‐level atoms is proposed. This scheme requires one of the two entangled atoms to interact with a cavity field dispersively, and it is shown that by measuring the zero time‐delay second‐order coherence function of the cavity field, one can measure the concurrence of an arbitrary Bell‐like atomic two‐qubit state. As this scheme requires only one of the atoms to interact with the measured cavity, the entanglement quantification becomes independent of the location of the other atom. Therefore, this scheme can have important implications for entanglement quantification in distributed quantum systems.

DOI
10.1002/andp.202100395

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