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Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3095–3098 (1993)

Synthesis of arbitrary quantum states via adiabatic transfer of Zeeman coherence

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A. S. Parkins, P. Marte, and P. Zoller
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-440

H. J. Kimble
Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics 12-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Received 30 March 1993; published in the issue dated 8 November 1993

A scheme for the preparation of general coherent superpositions of photon-number states is proposed. By strongly coupling an atom to a cavity field, atomic ground-state Zeeman coherence can be transferred by (coherent) adiabatic passage to the cavity mode and a general field state can be generated without atomic projection noise.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3095
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3095
PACS:
42.50.Dv, 42.50.Lc
 
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