Quantum harmonic oscillator state synthesis and analysis
Quantum Physics
2015-06-26 v1
Abstract
Experiments are described in which a single, harmonically bound, beryllium ion in a Paul trap is put into Fock, thermal, coherent, squeezed, and Schroedinger cat states. Experimental determinations of the density matrix and the Wigner function are described. A simple calculation of the decoherence of a superposition of coherent states due to an external electric field is given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9702038,
title = {Quantum harmonic oscillator state synthesis and analysis},
author = {W. M. Itano and C. Monroe and D. M. Meekhof and D. Leibfried and B. E. King and D. J. Wineland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9702038},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, LaTeX2e, special style file spie.sty included, 11 eps figures included using epsfig, graphicx, subfigure, floatflt macros. To appear in Proc. Conf. on Atom Optics, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1997, edited by M. G. Prentiss and W. D. Phillips, SPIE Proc. # 2995