Physical Review A
Generation of nonclassical states with a driven dispersive interaction
Shi-Biao Zheng
Abstract
We propose a scheme for the generation of various nonclassical states for a cavity field with a driven atom. In the scheme the atom is sent through the cavity and driven by a classical field. The atom interacts dispersively with the cavity field, which induces photon-number dependent Stark shift. Only for a desired Fock state, the atomic transition is tuned in resonance with the classical field. Thus, the measurement of the atomic transition may directly collapse the cavity field onto the desired Fock state. For a two-mode cavity field, pair coherent states and SU(2) coherent states can be generated.