Using Conditional Measurements to Combat Decoherence
Quantum Physics
2011-04-15 v1
Abstract
With the help of some remarkable examples, it is shown that conditional measurements performed on two-level atoms just after they have interacted with a resonant cavity field mode are able to recover the coherence of number-state superpositions, which is lost due to dissipation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9808057,
title = {Using Conditional Measurements to Combat Decoherence},
author = {Mauro Fortunato and Gil Harel and G. Kurizki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9808057},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
RevTeX, 5 pages, 1 figure (three Postscript files for Fig. 1 a,b, and c, automatically included through psfig). Talk given by M. Fortunato at the Workshop "Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Coherence", Naples (Italy), June 10-13 1998. To appear in the Conference Proceedings (Journal of Superconductivity, October 1998). See also: M. Fortunato, G. Harel, and G. Kurizki, Optics Communications 147, 71 (1998)