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Cooling an Optically Trapped Ultracold Fermi Gas by Periodical Driving
Published on: March 30, 2017
Continuous variable entanglement using cold atoms
1Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Case 74, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris CEDEX 05, France.
Abstract:
We present an experimental demonstration of both quadrature and polarization entanglement generated via the interaction between a coherent linearly polarized field and cold atoms in a high finesse optical cavity. The nonlinear atom-field interaction produces two squeezed modes with orthogonal polarizations which are used to generate a pair of nonseparable beams, the entanglement of which is demonstrated by checking the inseparability criterion for continuous variables recently derived by Duan et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2722 (2000)]] and calculating the entanglement of formation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 107901 (2003)]].
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