Single-atom and two-atom Ramsey interferometry with quantized fields Academic Article

abstract

• Implications of field quantization on Ramsey interferometry are discussed and general conditions for the occurrence of interference are obtained. Interferences do not occur if the fields in two Ramsey zones have a precise number of photons. However, in this case we show how an analog of Hanbury-Brown Twiss photon-photon correlation interferometry can be used to discern a variety of interference effects as the two independent Ramsey zones get entangled by the passage of the first atom. Interferences are restored by working with fields at a single-photon level. Generation of entangled states including states such as [Formula Presented] is discussed. 2003 The American Physical Society.

authors

• Agarwal, Girish
• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Agarwal, G. S., Pathak, P. K., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Agarwal, GS||Pathak, PK||Scully, MO

publication date

• April 2003

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A  Journal

keywords

• Quant-ph

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.043807

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/179420

start page

• 043807

end page

• 438079

volume

• 67

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.043807