Quantum phase retrieval of a Rydberg wave packet using a half-cycle pulse
Quantum Physics
2016-09-08 v2
Abstract
A terahertz half-cycle pulse was used to retrieve information stored as quantum phase in an -state Rydberg atom data register. The register was prepared as a wave packet with one state phase-reversed from the others (the "marked bit"). A half-cycle pulse then drove a significant portion of the electron probability into the flipped state via multimode interference.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0009064,
title = {Quantum phase retrieval of a Rydberg wave packet using a half-cycle pulse},
author = {J. Ahn and D. N. Hutchinson and C. Rangan and P. H. Bucksbaum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0009064},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
accepted by PRL