Entanglement Interferometry for Precision Measurement of Atomic Scattering Properties
Abstract
We report on a matter wave interferometer realized with entangled pairs of trapped 87Rb atoms. Each pair of atoms is confined at a single site of an optical lattice potential. The interferometer is realized by first creating a coherent spin superposition of the two atoms and then tuning the interstate scattering length via a Feshbach resonance. The selective change of the interstate scattering length leads to an entanglement dynamics of the two-particle state that can be detected in a Ramsey interference experiment. This entanglement dynamics is employed for a precision measurement of atomic interaction parameters. Furthermore, the interferometer allows us to separate lattice sites with one or two atoms in a nondestructive way.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 2004
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0310719
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvL..92p0406W
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Gg;
- 03.75.Lm;
- 03.75.Mn;
- 34.50.-s;
- Entanglement and decoherence in Bose-Einstein condensates;
- Tunneling Josephson effect Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials solitons vortices and topological excitations;
- Multicomponent condensates;
- spinor condensates;
- Scattering of atoms and molecules;
- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter;
- Physics - Atomic Physics;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 5 figures