Generating Fock states and two-Fock states superposition from circular states, in a trapped ion

2002/10/25 by Salomon S. Mizrahi, Wagner D. Jose
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph

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published as Proceedings of the VII-th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations, Boston, MA, USA, 04-08 June, 2001, Eds. D. Han, Y. S. Kim and A. Sergienko, NASA Conference Publication · 12 pages, REVTeX

arxiv created 2002/10/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We propose three schemes to engineer 2^M and M+1 circular states for the motion of the center of mass of a trapped ion, M being the number of laser pulses. Since the ion is subjected to several laser pulses, we analyze the necessary duration of each one for generating the circular states, and from these, the Fock states and superposition of two-Fock states. We also calculate the probability for obtaining the required states.

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