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Quantum Entanglement of Fock States with Perfectly Efficient Ultraslow Single-Probe Photon Four-Wave Mixing

Published

Author(s)

Lu Deng, M. G. Payne

Abstract

We propose a method to achieve quantum entanglement of two Fock states with perfectly efficient, ultraslow propagation enhanced four-wave mixing. A cold atomic medium is illuminated with a twomode cw control laser to produce coherent mixtures of excited states. An ultraslowly propagating, single-photon quantum probe field completes the four-wave mixing with 100% photon flux conversion efficiency, creating a depth dependent entanglement of two Fock states. We show that at a suitable propagation distance, a maximum entangled state is created with a single-photon wave-packet state that has 50% probability of being in each of two product-type Fock states
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
91
Issue
12

Keywords

entanglement, wave mixing and Fock-state

Citation

Deng, L. and , M. (2003), Quantum Entanglement of Fock States with Perfectly Efficient Ultraslow Single-Probe Photon Four-Wave Mixing, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.123602 (Accessed March 19, 2024)
Created September 18, 2003, Updated November 10, 2018