Analysis of the entanglement between two individual atoms using global Raman rotations

作者：Gaetan A; Evellin C; Wolters J; Grangier P; Wilk T; Browaeys A^*

来源：New Journal of Physics, 2010, 12(6): 065040.

DOI：10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/065040

Making use of the Rydberg blockade, we generate entanglement between two atoms individually trapped in two optical tweezers. In this paper, we detail the analysis of the data and show that we can determine the amount of entanglement between the atoms in the presence of atom losses during the entangling sequence. Our model takes into account states outside the qubit basis and allows us to perform a partial reconstruction of the density matrix describing the two-atom state. With this method, we extract the amount of entanglement between pairs of atoms still trapped after the entangling sequence and measure the fidelity with respect to the expected Bell state. We find a fidelity F(pairs) = 0.74(7) for the 62% of atom pairs remaining in the traps at the end of the entangling sequence.

• 出版日期2010-6-28