Entangling strings of neutral atoms in 1D atomic pipeline structures.
We study a string of neutral atoms with nearest neighbor interaction in a 1D beam splitter configuration, where the longitudinal motion is controlled by a moving optical lattice potential. The dynamics of the atoms crossing the beam splitter maps to a 1D spin model with controllable time dependent parameters, which allows the creation of maximally entangled states of atoms by crossing a quantum phase transition. Furthermore, we show that this system realizes protected quantum memory, and we discuss the implementation of one- and two-qubit gates in this setup.
Dorner
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Fedichev
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Jaksch
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Lewenstein
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Zoller
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