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Manipulating quantum entanglement with atoms and photons in a cavity

J. M. Raimond, M. Brune, and S. Haroche*

J. M. Raimond, M. Brune, and S. Haroche*

  • Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l’Ecole normale supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231, France

  • *Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel is Unité mixte de recherche, Ecole normale supérieure, Université Pierre et Marie Curie et CNRS (UMR8552).
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Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 565 – Published 28 August, 2001

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.73.565

Abstract

After they have interacted, quantum particles generally behave as a single nonseparable entangled system. The concept of entanglement plays an essential role in quantum physics. We have performed entanglement experiments with Rydberg atoms and microwave photons in a cavity and tested quantum mechanics in situations of increasing complexity. Entanglement resulted either from a resonant exchange of energy between atoms and the cavity field or from dispersive energy shifts affecting atoms and photons when they were not resonant. With two entangled particles (two atoms or one atom and a photon), we have realized new versions of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen situation. The detection of one particle projected the other, at a distance, in a correlated state. This process could be viewed as an elementary measurement, one particle being a “meter” measuring the other. We have performed a “quantum nondemolition” measurement of a single photon, which we detected repeatedly without destroying it. Entanglement is also essential to understand decoherence, the process accounting for the classical appearance of the macroscopic world. A mesoscopic superposition of states (“Schrödinger cat”) gets rapidly entangled with its environment, losing its quantum coherence. We have prepared a Schrödinger cat made of a few photons and studied the dynamics of its decoherence, in an experiment which constitutes a glimpse at the quantum/classical boundary. We have also investigated entanglement as a resource for the processing of quantum information. By using quantum two-state systems (qubits) instead of classical bits of information, one can perform logical operations exploiting quantum interferences and taking advantage of the properties of entanglement. Manipulating as qubits atoms and photons in a cavity, we have operated a quantum gate and applied it to the generation of a complex three-particle entangled state. We finally discuss the perspectives opened by these experiments for further fundamental studies.

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