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Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1055–1058 (1996)

Arbitrary Control of a Quantum Electromagnetic Field

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C. K. Law and J. H. Eberly
Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

Received 5 October 1995; published in the issue dated 12 February 1996

We present a cavity QED interaction which forces the ground state of a cavity field mode to evolve into an arbitrary quantum state at a prechosen time t*. This method does not involve either atom-field state entanglement or the projections characteristic of quantum measurement.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1055
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.1055
PACS:
42.50.Dv, 03.65.Bz, 32.80.-t, 42.50.Lc