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Entangled Radiation through an Atomic Reservoir Controlled by Coherent Population Trapping |
| Li Qian, ZHONG Wen-Xue, HU Xiang-Ming |
| Department of Physics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079 |
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Li Qian, ZHONG Wen-Xue, HU Xiang-Ming 2008 Chin. Phys. Lett. 25 3234-3237 |
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Abstract We show that it is possible to generate Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen (EPR) entangled radiation using an atomic reservoir controlled by coherent population trapping. A beam of three-level atoms is initially prepared in near-coherent population trapping (CPT) state and acts as a long-lived coherence-controlled reservoir. Four-wave mixing leads to amplification of cavity modes resonant with Rabi sidebands of the atomic dipole transitions. The cavity modes evolve into an EPR state, whose degree of entanglement is controlled by the intensities and the frequencies of the driving fields. This scheme uses the long-lived CPT coherence and is robust against spontaneous emission of the atomic beam. At the same time, this scheme is implemented in a one-step procedure, not in a two-step procedure as was required in Phys. Rev. Lett. 98(2007)240401.
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Received: 25 March 2008
Published: 29 August 2008
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(Quantum state engineering and measurements)
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(Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and Amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and Absorption)
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(Quantum fluctuations, quantum noise, and quantum jumps)
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(Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers)
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