Published October 2005
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Journal article
Synthesis of arbitrary Fock states via conditional measurement on beam splitters
Creators
- 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Goias, 74.001-970, Goiania, GO (Brazil)
- 2. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Brasilia, 70.919-970, Brasilia, DF (Brazil)
Description
In a previous work [Opt. Commun. 138, 71 (1997)] a scheme was proposed to create traveling fields in the Fock state |2J>. Here we show how to extend this result to arbitrary Fock states. The procedure combines one-photon states impinging on a sequence of distinct beam splitters, each one associated with a (zero detection) single-photon photodetector, with optimization of the success probability to get the desired state. Advantages and disadvantages of this scheme are discussed
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 72
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Journal Page Range
- p. 045803-045803.4
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37031097
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BEAM SPLITTING; DETECTION; ENERGY LEVELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS
- Descriptors DEC
- BEAMS; BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MECHANICS
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- Notes
- (c) 2005 The American Physical Society