Collective State Measurement of Mesoscopic Ensembles with Single-Atom Resolution

We demonstrate single-atom resolution, as well as detection sensitivity more than 20 dB below the quantum projection noise limit, for hyperfine-state-selective measurements on mesoscopic ensembles containing 100 or more atoms. The measurement detects the atom-induced shift of the resonance frequency...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Hao, McConnell, Robert P., Cuk, Senka, Schleier-Smith, Monika H., Leroux, Ian Daniel, Vuletic, Vladan, Lin, Qian, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76294
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5450-8809
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538