Weak value amplification of atomic cat states

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/9/093032zbMATH Open1448.81045arXiv1501.02359OpenAlexW2138237598MaRDI QIDQ5136106FDOQ5136106

Authors: Sumei Huang, G. S. Agarwal 

Publication date: 25 November 2020

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show the utility of the weak value amplification to observe the quantum interference between two close lying atomic coherent states in a post-selected atomic cat state, produced in a system of $N$ identical two-level atoms weakly interacting with a single photon field. Through the observation of the negative parts of the Wigner distribution of the post-selected atomic cat state, we find that the post-selected atomic cat state becomes more nonclassical when the post-selected polarization state of the single photon field tends toward becoming orthogonal to its pre-selected state. We show that the small phase shift in the post-selected atomic cat state can be amplified via measuring the peak shift of its phase distribution when the post-selected state of the single photon field is nearly orthogonal to its pre-selected state. We find that the amplification factor of 15 [5] can be obtained for a sample of 10 [100] atoms. This effectively provides us with a method to discriminate two close lying states on the Bloch sphere. We discuss possible experimental implementation of the scheme, and conclude with a discussion of the Fisher information.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02359

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Quantum state tomography, quantum state discrimination (81P18) LOCC, teleportation, dense coding, remote state operations, distillation (81P48)

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