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MANIPULATING THE QUANTUM STATE OF SINGLE ATOMS AND PHOTONS works of Nobel Laureates in p hysics 2012 A.V.Masalov Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow masalov@sci.lebedev.ru. фото. Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 : Serge HAROCHE and David J. WINELAND
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MANIPULATING THE QUANTUM STATE OF SINGLE ATOMS AND PHOTONS works of Nobel Laureates in physics 2012 A.V.Masalov Lebedev Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow masalov@sci.lebedev.ru фото
Nobel Prize in Physics 2012: Serge HAROCHE and David J. WINELAND "FOR GROUND-BREAKING EXPERIMENTAL METHODS THAT ENABLE MEASURING AND MANIPULATION OF INDIVIDUAL QUANTUM SYSTEMS“ PHOTONS IONS
Serge HAROCHE École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France MANIPULATING THE QUANTUM STATE OF SINGLE PHOTONS
INDIVIDUAL QUANTUM SYSTEMS: photons of electromagnetic field @ 51.1 ГГц ( ~ 6 mm); number of photons – from 1 to about 10. MEASURING AND MANIPULATION: by means of single atoms in superpositional states.
SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITIES: - Open Fabry Perot - Niobium on diamond machinedcopper - Unprecedented lifetime @ 51 GHz, 0.8 K : Tc=0,13 s Q=4,2 × 1010 F=4,6 × 109 !!! Average number of thermal photons ~ 0.05
CIRCULAR RYDBERG ATOMS: - Long lifetime (30 ms) - Millimeter-wave transitions - Tunable via the Stark effect - Large coupling to radiation - Efficient and state-selective single-atom detection !!! Excitation to superpositional states (by ‘’-pulse of light): n = 3 n = 2 n = 1 n = 0
B – atomic source (beam of single Rb atoms) selected by velositiy: ~ 900 pc/s, ~ 250 m/s. С – superconducting resonator: 51.1 GHz, 0.8 K, tunable (!) R1и R2 – auxilary resonator for excitation anf analysis of atoms. S – source of radiation at about 51 GHz. D – detector of atomic state: or .
Source R1 ‘’-pulse atom Main resonator C tuned close but out of resonance with atoms Atoms are exposed to Stark-shift of levels in the interaction area C: Atom + 1 photon: Source R2 ‘’-pulse atom + 1 photon 1 pure exited state! atom + 0 photon 0 pure ground state! INTERFEROMETER RAMSEY
Photon decay in resonator: 1realization 5realizations 15realizations 904realizations
INTERFEROMETER RAMSEY The ‘door’ from classical world to quantum one: ‘’-pulse The ‘door’ from quantum world to classical one: interferometer Ramsey
More delicate coding of photon numbers in resonator by phase in superpositional state of atoms
More delicate coding of photon numbers in C by phase in superpositional state of atoms
1. Photon-state preparation in C by resonant atoms. 2. Photon-state detection by non-resonant atoms: QUANTUM NON-DEMOLITION MEASUREMENTS OF PHOTON NUMBER IN RESONATOR
POISSON DISTRIBUTION OF PHOTONS (at final stage on measurements)
Reconstruction of density-matrix and quasiprobability distribution of radiation with n = 1
Reconstruction of density-matrix and quasiprobability distribution of radiation with n = 2
Reconstruction of density-matrix and quasiprobability distribution of radiation with n = 3
Reconstruction of density-matrix and quasiprobability distribution of radiation with n = 4
Reconstruction of density-matrix and quasiprobability distribution of radiation in the states of ‘Schredinger-cat’ evenodddecoherence
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