2006/12/31 by Kishore T. Kapale, Kishore T Kapale, Jonathan P. Dowling +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.99.053602
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 99, art. no. 053602 (2007)
openalex publication_date 2007/08/03 · arxiv created 2008/03/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose a bootstrapping approach to the generation of maximally path-entangled states of photons, so-called "NOON states." The strong atom-light interaction of cavity QED can be employed to generate NOON states with about 100 photons. These can then be used to boost the existing experimental Kerr nonlinearities based on quantum coherence effects, to facilitate NOON generation with an arbitrarily large number of photons. We also offer an alternative scheme that uses an atom-cavity dispersive interaction to obtain a sufficiently high Kerr nonlinearity necessary for arbitrary NOON generation.