arXiv:quant-ph/0405079 · Physical Review A

Distilling angular momentum nonclassical states in trapped ions

Benedetto Militello, ANTONINO MESSINA

Published Sep 23, 2004• 16 citations

Abstract

In the spirit of quantum nondemolition measurements, we show that by exploiting suitable vibronic couplings and repeatedly measuring the atomic population of a confined ion, it is possible to distill center-of-mass vibrational states with a well-defined square of angular momentum or, alternatively, angular momentum projection Schr\"odinger cat states.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.70.033408

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