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Physical Review Letters

Generation and Control of Chains of Entangled Atom-Ion Pairs with Quantum Light

Moshe Shapiro, Paul W. Brumer

Published Apr 14, 2011• 15 citations
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Abstract

Coherent control using quantum light incident upon molecules in an optical lattice is shown to give rise to a direct way of writing arbitrary sequences of entangled atom-ion pairs. There is no evident limitation on the length of the word (i.e., the number of qbits) that can be formed.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.106.150501

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