Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled Collisions

D. Jaksch; H.-J. Briegel; J. I. Cirac; C. W. Gardiner; P. Zoller

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1975

Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled Collisions

D. Jaksch, H.-J. Briegel, J. I. Cirac, C. W. Gardiner, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1975 – Published 1 March 1999

Abstract

We show that by using cold controlled collisions between two atoms one can achieve conditional dynamics in moving trap potentials. We discuss implementing two qubit quantum gates and efficient creation of highly entangled states of many atoms in optical lattices.

Received 28 October 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.1975

Authors & Affiliations

D. Jaksch¹, H.-J. Briegel¹, J. I. Cirac¹, C. W. Gardiner², and P. Zoller¹

¹Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
²School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand