Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 160406 (2004) [4 pages]Entanglement Interferometry for Precision Measurement of Atomic Scattering Properties
Artur Widera1,2 *, Olaf Mandel1,2, Markus Greiner3, Susanne Kreim1,2, Theodor W. Hänsch1,2, and Immanuel Bloch1,2,4 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 * Electronic address: widera@uni-mainz.de [ Abstract | Previous article | Next article | Issue 16 ] |
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