1996/10/23 by M. Fortunato, G. Kurizki, W. P. Schleich
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
published as Acta Phys.Slov. 46 (1996) 381 · 6 pages, 2 figures. Needs acta96.sty, also included in this submission. The two figures are included automatically through psfig.sty. Talk given by Mauro Fortunato at the 4th central-european workshop on quantum optics, Budmerice, Slovakia, May 31 - June 3, 1996
By sending many two-level atoms through a cavity resonant with the atomic transition, and letting the interaction times between the atoms and the cavity be randomly distributed, we end up with a predetermined Fock state of the electromagnetic field inside the cavity if we perform after the interaction with the cavity a conditional measurement of the internal state of each atom in a coherent superposition of its ground and excited states. Differently from previous schemes, this procedure turns out to be very stable under fluctuations in the interaction times.