Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 160406 (2004) [4 pages]

Entanglement Interferometry for Precision Measurement of Atomic Scattering Properties

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Artur Widera1,2 *, Olaf Mandel1,2, Markus Greiner3, Susanne Kreim1,2, Theodor W. Hänsch1,2, and Immanuel Bloch1,2,4
1Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Schellingstrasse 4/III, 80799 Munich, Germany
2Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching, Germany
3JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA
4Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany

Received 30 October 2003; published 23 April 2004

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.


©2004 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v92/e160406
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.160406
PACS: 03.75.Gg, 03.75.Lm, 03.75.Mn, 34.50.–s

* Electronic address: widera@uni-mainz.de

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