Hyperfine Coherence in the Presence of Spontaneous Photon Scattering

Details Hyperfine Coherence in the Presence of Spontaneous Photon Scattering Hyperfine Coherence in the Presence of Spontaneous Photon Scattering

2005-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502063v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

Letter, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.030403

The coherence of a hyperfine-state superposition of a trapped $^{9}$Be$^+$ ion in the presence of off-resonant light is experimentally studied. It is shown that Rayleigh elastic scattering of photons that does not change state populations also does not affect coherence. Coherence times exceeding the average scattering time of 19 photons are observed. This result implies that, with sufficient control over its parameters, laser light can be used to manipulate hyperfine-state superpositions with very little decoherence.

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