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Correlated Superposition States in Two-Atom Systems
Z. Ficek, R. Tanaś
Abstract
Schemes proposed for the preparation of two two-level atoms in an entangled state are reviewed. The authors begin Section II with a derivation of the master equation for two nonidentical two-level atoms interacting with the quantized three-dimensional vacuum field and driven by a single-mode coherent laser field. Sections III and IV are concerned mainly with techniques proposed for the preparation of a two-atom system in entangled states. The cases of maximally and nonmaximally entangled states are discussed. Methods of detecting a particular entangled state are discussed in Section V and preparation of a two-atom system in two-photon entangled states is described in Section VI. A method of mapping of the entanglement of light on atoms is also presented.