Journal of Modern Optics
Preparation of two-mode anticorrelated photon-number state via atom de Broglie wave deflection
Петер Адам, József Janszky, P. Domokos, S. Szabo
Abstract
It is shown that the deflection of an atom de Broglie wave at two adjacent cavities containing non-resonant weak fields can yield a highly entangled quantum state of the atom–field system in which discernible atomic beams are entangled to internal states of the atom and to two-mode photon-number states of the fields. Two-mode anticorrelated entangled photon-number states characterized by the total photon number can be prepared by the detection of the atom in given directions of the propagation.