Quantum optics with quantum gases: controlled state reduction by designed light scattering

Details Quantum optics with quantum gases: controlled state reduction by designed light scattering Quantum optics with quantum gases: controlled state reduction by designed light scattering

2009-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/0904.4210v2

Phys. Rev. A 80, 013604 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

updated, to be published in Phys. Rev. A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.80.013604

Cavity enhanced light scattering off an ultracold gas in an optical lattice constitutes a quantum measurement with a controllable form of the measurement back-action. Time-resolved counting of scattered photons alters the state of the atoms without particle loss implementing a quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement. The conditional dynamics is given by the interplay between photodetection events (quantum jumps) and no-count processes. The class of emerging atomic many-body states can be chosen via the optical geometry and light frequencies. Light detection along the angle of a diffraction maximum (Bragg angle) creates an atom-number squeezed state, while light detection at diffraction minima leads to the macroscopic superposition states (Schroedinger cat states) of different atom numbers in the cavity mode. A measurement of the cavity transmission intensity can lead to atom-number squeezed or macroscopic superposition states depending on its outcome. We analyze the robustness of the superposition with respect to missed counts and find that a transmission measurement yields more robust and controllable superposition states than the ones obtained by scattering at a diffraction minimum.

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