Entangling Strings of Neutral Atoms in 1D Atomic Pipeline Structures
U. Dorner, Peter O. Fedichev, Dieter Jaksch +2 more
We study a string of neutral atoms with nearest neighbor interaction in a 1D beam splitter configuration, where the longitudinal motion is controlled by a moving optical lattice potential. The dynamics of the atoms crossing the beam splitter maps to a 1D spin model with controllable time dependent parameters, which allows the creation of maximally entangled states of atoms by crossing a quantum phase transition. Furthermore, we show that this system realizes protected quantum memory, and we discuss the implementation of one- and two-qubit gates in this setup.
arXiv:quant-ph/0212039•Physical Review Letters•Aug 14, 2003•77 citations