2008/11/04 by W. Chen, P. Meystre, Pierre Meystre · 6 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.79.043801
8 pages, 15 figures
arxiv created 2008/11/04 · openalex publication_date 2009/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
When an incident light beam is scattered off a sample of ultracold atoms trapped in a double-well potential, the statistical properties of the retroreflected field contain information about the quantum state of the atoms, and permit, for example, to distinguish between atoms in a superfluid state and a product of Fock states for each well (Mott-insulator-like state). This paper extends our previous analysis of this problem to include the effects of cavity damping. We use a Monte Carlo wave-function method to determine the two-time correlation function and time-dependent physical spectrum of the retroreflected field. We also analyze quantitatively the entanglement between the atoms and the light field for atoms in these two states.