Quantum measurements of atoms using cavity QED
Dada, Adetunmise C. and Andersson, Erika and Jones, Martin L. and Kendon, Vivien M. and Everitt, Mark S. (2011) Quantum measurements of atoms using cavity QED. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 83 (4). 042339. ISSN 1050-2947 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.042339)
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Abstract
Generalized quantum measurements are an important extension of projective or von Neumann measurements in that they can be used to describe any measurement that can be implemented on a quantum system. We describe how to realize two nonstandard quantum measurements using cavity QED. The first measurement optimally and unambiguously distinguishes between two nonorthogonal quantum states. The second example is a measurement that demonstrates superadditive quantum coding gain. The experimental tools used are single-atom unitary operations effected by Ramsey pulses and two-atom Tavis-Cummings interactions. We show how the superadditive quantum coding gain is affected by errors in the field-ionization detection of atoms and that even with rather high levels of experimental imperfections, a reasonable amount of superadditivity can still be seen. To date, these types of measurements have been realized only on photons. It would be of great interest to have realizations using other physical systems. This is for fundamental reasons but also since quantum coding gain in general increases with code word length, and a realization using atoms could be more easily scaled than existing realizations using photons.
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Dada, Adetunmise C., Andersson, Erika, Jones, Martin L., Kendon, Vivien M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6551-3056 and Everitt, Mark S.;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 78944 Dates: DateEvent29 April 2011PublishedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 16 Dec 2021 14:49 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 13:19 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78944