2019/11/13 by Martín Drechsler, María Belén Farías Nahuel Freitas, Christian Tomás Schmiegelow +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.101.052331
published as Phys. Rev. A 101, 052331 (2020) · 5 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2019/11/13 · arxiv updated 2020/05/27
We show that the motion of a cold trapped ion can be squeezed by modulating the intensity of a phase-stable optical lattice placed inside the trap. As this method is reversible and state selective it effectively implements a controlled-squeeze gate. We show how to use this resource, that can be useful for quantum information processing with continuous variables, in order to prepare coherent superpositions of states which are squeezed along complementary quadratures. We show that these states, which we denote as "\mathcal X-states", exhibit high sensitivity to small displacements along two complementary quadratures which make them useful for quantum metrology.