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Volume 113, Number 3, February 2016
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| Article Number | 34005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/113/34005 | |
| Published online | 29 February 2016 | |
Limits of atomic entanglement by cavity feedback: From weak to strong coupling
1 Center for Theoretical Physics PAN - Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
2 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, UPMC, Collège de France and CNRS - 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris, France
Received: 30 November 2015
Accepted: 16 February 2016
We theoretically investigate the entangled states of an atomic ensemble that can be obtained via cavity feedback, varying the atom-light coupling from weak to strong, and including a systematic treatment of decoherence. In the strong-coupling regime for small atomic ensembles, the system is driven by cavity losses into a long-lived, highly entangled many-body state that we characterize analytically. In the weak-coupling regime for large ensembles, we find analytically the maximum spin-squeezing that can be achieved by optimizing both the coupling and the atom number. This squeezing is fundamentally limited by spontaneous emission to a constant value, which is independent of the atom number.
PACS: 42.50.Pq – Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers / 42.50.Dv – Quantum state engineering and measurements / 03.67.Bg – Entanglement production and manipulation
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