arXiv:quant-ph/0306152 · Physical Review Letters
Continuous Variable Entanglement using Cold Atoms
Vincent Josse, Aurélien Dantan, Alberto Bramati, M. Pinard, E. Giacobino
Abstract
We present an experimental demonstration of both quadrature and polarization entanglement generated via the interaction between a coherent linearly polarized field and cold atoms in a high finesse optical cavity. The nonlinear atom-field interaction produces two squeezed modes with orthogonal polarizations which are used to generate a pair of nonseparable beams, the entanglement of which is demonstrated by checking the inseparability criterion for continuous variables recently derived by Duan et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2722 (2000)]] and calculating the entanglement of formation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 107901 (2003)]].