title: Deterministic and nondestructively verifiable preparation of photon number states.
abstract: An experimentally viable approach for preparing arbitrary photon number states of a cavity mode using continuous measurement and real-time quantum feedback is presented. The procedure passively monitors the number state actually achieved in each feedback-stabilized measurement trajectory, thus providing nondestructively verifiable photon generation. The feasibility of a possible cavity QED implementation in the many-atom, good-cavity-coupling regime is analyzed.
authors.affiliation: Quantum Measurement & Control, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. jgeremia@unm.edu
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Geremia