Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-08-26
Physics
Quantum Physics
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.260403
We report the observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon at remote locations. The degree of coherence of the entangled atom-photon pair is verified via appropriate local correlation measurements, after communicating the photon via an optical fiber link of 300 m length. In addition we measured the temporal evolution of the atomic density matrix after projecting the atom via a state measurement of the photon onto several well defined spin states. We find that the state of the single atom dephases on a timescale of 150 $\mu$s, which represents an important step toward long-distance quantum networking with individual neutral atoms.
Henkel Florian
Hocke F.
Krug Marcus
Rosenfeld Wenjamin
Volz Juergen
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