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arXiv:quant-ph/9905025

Coherent Control of Atom-Atom Interactions and Entanglement using Optical Fields

Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Hemmer

Published May 7, 1999• 0 citations
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Abstract

Two-photon optical transitions combined with long-range dipole-dipole interactions can be used for the coherent manipulation of collective metastable states composed of different atoms. We show that it is possible to induce optical resonances accompanied by the generation of entangled superpositions of the atomic states. Resonances of this kind can be used to implement quantum logic gates using optically excited single atoms (impurities) in the condensed phase.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9905025

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