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We study the discrimination of weak coherent states of light with significant overlaps by nondestructive measurements on the light states through measuring atomic states that are entangled to the coherent states via dipole coupling. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Rui Han , János A. Bergou , Gerd Leuchs

In this paper, we present the spectroscopy of 6P$_{1/2}$ state in $^{87}$Rb using double resonance technique at $780~\text{nm}$ and $421~\text{nm}$. The double resonance technique is implemented using electromagnetically induced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Elijah Ogaro Nyakang'o , Dangka Shylla , Vasant Natarajan , Kanhaiya Pandey

In atomic and molecular phase measurements using laser-induced fluorescence detection, optical cycling can enhance the effective photon detection efficiency and hence improve sensitivity. We show that detecting many photons per atom or…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Zack Lasner , David DeMille

Many ion species commonly used for laser-cooled ion trapping studies have a low-lying metastable 2D3/2 state that can become populated due to spontaneous emission from the 2P1/2 excited state. This requires a repumper laser to maintain the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 T. Lindvall , T. Fordell , I. Tittonen , M. Merimaa

Raman scattering is a chemically selective probing mechanism with diverse applications in industry and clinical settings. Yet, most samples are optically opaque limiting the applicability of Raman probing at depth. Here, we demonstrate…

In this study, we explore an approach aimed at enhancing the transmission or reflection coefficients of absorbing materials through the utilization of joint measurements of entangled photon states. On the one hand, through the…

We study the optical response of a binary system of identical atoms in which one of them is excited by an incoherent pump. %We study the properties of photon scattering, absorption and emission, together with the time evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 L. Acevedo , J. Sánchez-Cánovas , M. Donaire

Entanglement between remote quantum mechanical systems enables a range of quantum information tasks in communication, computation and distributed sensing. Large numbers of entangled subsystems also require experimentally accessible and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Kai Ryen Bush , Kjetil Børkje

Entangled coherent states are shown to emerge, with high fidelity, when mixing coherent and squeezed vacuum states of light on a beam-splitter. These maximally entangled states, where photons bunch at the exit of a beamsplitter, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Yonatan Israel , Lior Cohen , Xin-Bing Song , Jaewoo Joo , Hagai S. Eisenberg , Yaron Silberberg

We propose a scheme to generate quantum superpositions of macroscopically distinct flow states of ultracold atoms on a ring using Raman coupling employing a quantized laser field that is a cat-like superposition of optical vortices with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Rina Kanamoto , Ewan M. Wright

We propose a two-step pulse observation method to enhance frequency stability for coherent population trapping (CPT) atomic clocks. The proposed method is a Raman-Ramsey scheme with low light intensity at resonance observation, and provides…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Yuichiro Yano , Shigeyoshi Goka , Masatoshi Kajita

We introduce the entangled coherent state representation, which provides a powerful technique for efficiently and elegantly describing and analyzing quantum optics sources and detectors while respecting the photon number superselection rule…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Barry C. Sanders , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph , Peter L. Knight

Fast and efficient detection of the qubit state in trapped ion quantum information processing is critical for implementing quantum error correction and performing fundamental tests such as a loophole-free Bell test. In this work we present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Rachel Noek , Geert Vrijsen , Daniel Gaultney , Emily Mount , Taehyun Kim , Peter Maunz , Jungsang Kim

The coherence of two, coupled two-level systems, representing vibrational modes in a semiclassical model, is calculated in weak and strong fields for various coupling schemes and for different relative phases between initial state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Malinovskaya , P. H. Bucksbaum , P. R. Berman

Photoreflectance is used for the characterisation of semiconductor samples, usually by sweeping the monochromatized probe beam within the energy range comprised between the highest value set by the pump beam and the lowest absorption…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-16 D. Fuertes Marrón

Spectral homodyne detection, a widely used technique for measuring quantum properties of light beams, cannot retrieve all the information needed to reconstruct the quantum state of spectral field modes. We show that full quantum state…

We discuss the data-pattern tomography for reconstruction of entangled states of light. We show that for a moderate number of probe coherent states it is possible to achieve high accuracy of representation not only for single-mode states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Vadim Reut , Alexander Mikhalychev , Dmitri Mogilevtsev

A solid state device to discriminate all the four Bell states is proposed. The device is composed of controlled absorption crystals, rotators, and retarders. The controlled absorption, where the state of one photon affects the absorption of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Tomita

Spin-polarised atomic ensembles probed by light based on the Faraday interaction are a versatile platform for numerous applications in quantum metrology and quantum information processing. Here we consider an ensemble of Alkali atoms that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Alexander Roth , Klemens Hammerer , Kirill S. Tikhonov

The ability to prepare molecular ions in selected quantum states enables studies in areas such as chemistry, metrology, spectroscopy, quantum information, and precision measurements. Here, we demonstrate $(2+1)$ resonance-enhanced…