Unitary cavity spin squeezing by quantum erasure

作者:Leroux Ian D*; Schleier Smith Monika H; Zhang Hao; Vuletic Vladan
来源:Physical Review A, 2012, 85(1): 013803.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.85.013803

摘要

Deterministic light-induced spin squeezing in an atomic gas is limited by photon shot noise or, equivalently, by atomic state information escaping with the light field mediating the effective atom-atom interaction. We show theoretically that the performance of cavity spin squeezing [M. H. Schleier-Smith, I. D. Leroux, and V. Vuletic, Phys. Rev. A 81, 021804 ( 2010)] can be substantially improved by erasing the light-atom entanglement, and propose several methods for doing so. Accounting for light scattering into free space, quantum erasure improves the scaling of cavity squeezing from S(-1/2) to S(-2/3), where S is the total atomic spin.

  • 出版日期2012-1-3