Quantum dynamics of an electromagnetic mode that cannot contain N photons

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.1259345MaRDI QIDQ2961787zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 15 February 2017

Published in Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04238

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Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: Electromagnetic modes are instrumental in building quantum machines. In this experiment, we introduce a method to manipulate these modes by effectively controlling their phase space. Preventing access to a single energy level, corresponding to a number of photons N, confined the dynamics of the field to levels 0 to N-1. Under a resonant drive, the level occupation was found to oscillate in time, similarly to an N-level system. Performing a direct Wigner tomography of the field revealed its nonclassical features, including a Schr"{o}dinger cat-like state at half period in the evolution. This fine control of the field in its phase space may enable applications in quantum information and metrology.

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