Determination of the phase of an electromagnetic field via incoherent detection of fluorescence

Details Determination of the phase of an electromagnetic field via incoherent detection of fluorescence Determination of the phase of an electromagnetic field via incoherent detection of fluorescence

2002-05-20

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205120v2

Phys. Rev. A 69, 032308 (2004)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 figs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.69.032308

We show that the phase of a field can be determined by incoherent detection of the population of one state of a two-level system if the Rabi frequency is comparable to the Bohr frequency so that the rotating wave approximation is inappropriate. This implies that a process employing the measurement of population is not a square-law detector in this limit. We discuss how the sensitivity of the degree of excitation to the phase of the field may pose severe constraints on precise rotations of quantum bits involving low-frequency transitions. We present a scheme for observing this effect in an atomic beam, despite the spread in the interaction time.

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