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Physical Review Letters

Synthesis of arbitrary quantum states via adiabatic transfer of Zeeman coherence

A. S. Parkins, P. Marte, P. Zoller, Harry J. Kimble

Published Nov 8, 1993• 396 citations
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Abstract

A scheme for the preparation of general coherent superpositions of photon-number states is proposed. By strongly coupling an atom to a cavity field, atomic ground-state Zeeman coherence can be transferred by (coherent) adiabatic passage to the cavity mode and a general field state can be generated without atomic projection noise.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.71.3095

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