title: Stationary source of nonclassical or entangled atoms.
abstract: A scheme for generating continuous beams of atoms in nonclassical or entangled quantum states is proposed and analyzed. For this the recently suggested transfer technique of quantum states from light fields to collective atomic excitation by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage [M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5094 (2000)] is employed and extended to matter waves.
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich Physik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Erwin Schrödinger Strasse, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fleischhauer
authors.forename: Shangqing
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gong