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Engineering distributed atomic NOON states via single-photon detection

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Abstract

We propose a simple and novel scheme to generate a NOON state for the atoms trapped in two separate cavities by means of single-photon detection. The light–atom interaction entangles the frequency spectrum of light and the atomic collective spins, and the photon–atom entangled state is converted to a purely atomic NOON state by time-resolved detection on the transmitted photon. The fidelity of the NOON state reduces in the presence of dissipation. We further propose an effective protocol to improve the fidelity, which yields a high-fidelity many-atom NOON state. Our scheme can be implemented with the current technology.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (11474077, 11675046).

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    Chuang Li & Ying Dong

  2. Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

    Chuang Li, Jie Song & Weiqiang Ding

  3. School of Mathematics and Physics, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, 213001, China

    Jiandong Zhang

  4. Department of Physics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Yan Xia

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Li, C., Dong, Y., Zhang, J. et al. Engineering distributed atomic NOON states via single-photon detection. Quantum Inf Process 20, 139 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03077-1

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