Preparation of the W State of Atoms in a Single Cavity or N Distant Cavities by Photon Interference

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2004-08-18
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WesuggesttwoschemestogeneratetheWstateofNA-typethree-levelatoms.Intheschemes,identicalNthree-levelatomsaretrappedinacavityorNdistantcavities.ThesuccessorfailureofthegenerationoftheWstatecanbedeterminedbydetectingthepolarizationofphotonleakingoutofthecavity.TheresultdemonstratesthattheWstateisfreefromboththecavitylossandthespontaneousemissionduetothefactthatthetwogroundstates(leftandright)ofthethree-levelatomsarestablestates(ormetastablestates).