Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 160406 (2004) [4 pages]Entanglement Interferometry for Precision Measurement of Atomic Scattering PropertiesReceived 30 October 2003; published 23 April 2004 We report on a matter wave interferometer realized with entangled pairs of trapped 87Rb atoms. Each pair of atoms is confined at a single site of an optical lattice potential. The interferometer is realized by first creating a coherent spin superposition of the two atoms and then tuning the interstate scattering length via a Feshbach resonance. The selective change of the interstate scattering length leads to an entanglement dynamics of the two-particle state that can be detected in a Ramsey interference experiment. This entanglement dynamics is employed for a precision measurement of atomic interaction parameters. Furthermore, the interferometer allows us to separate lattice sites with one or two atoms in a nondestructive way. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.160406
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.160406
PACS:
03.75.Gg, 03.75.Lm, 03.75.Mn, 34.50.–s
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