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Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting

Quantum Physics 2017-02-28 v1

Abstract

We model recent experiments on living sulphur bacteria interacting with quantised light, using the Dicke model. The strong coupling achieved between the bacteria and the light indicates that during the experiment the bacteria (treated as dipoles) and the quantized light are entangled. The vacuum Rabi splitting, which was measured in the experiment for a range of different parameters, can be used as an entanglement witness.

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@article{arxiv.1702.08075,
  title  = {Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting},
  author = {C. Marletto and D. M. Coles and T. Farrow and V. Vedral},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08075},
  year   = {2017}
}