Spin squeezing of a cold atomic ensemble with the nuclear spin of one-half.
In order to establish an applicable system for advanced quantum information processing based on the interaction between light and atoms, we have demonstrated a quantum nondemolition measurement with a collective spin of cold ytterbium atoms (171Yb), and have observed 1.8(-1.5)+2.4 dB spin squeezing. Since 171Yb atoms have only a nuclear spin of one-half in the ground state, the system constitutes the simplest spin ensemble and is thus robust against decoherence. We used very short pulses with a width of 100 ns, and as a result the interaction time became much shorter than the decoherence time, which is important for multistep quantum information processing.
Takano
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Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Fuyama
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Namiki
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Takahashi
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