Creating single-atom and single-photon sources from entangled atomic ensembles
Abstract
We discuss the application of dipole blockade techniques for the preparation of single-atom and single-photon sources. A deterministic protocol is given for loading a single atom in an optical trap, as well as ejecting a controlled number of atoms in a desired direction. A single-photon source with an optically controlled beamlike emission pattern is described.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- December 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.065403
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/0203080
- Bibcode:
- 2002PhRvA..66f5403S
- Keywords:
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- 32.80.Qk;
- 03.67.Dd;
- Coherent control of atomic interactions with photons;
- Quantum cryptography;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- Physical Review A, 66, 065403 (2002)