Many-body state engineering using measurements and fixed unitary dynamics
arXiv:1406.0667 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/16/11/113038
Abstract
We develop a scheme to prepare a desired state or subspace in high-dimensional Hilbert-spaces using repeated applications of a single static projection operator onto the desired target and fixed unitary dynamics. Benchmarks against other control schemes, performed on generic Hamiltonians and on Bose-Hubbard systems, establish the competitiveness of the method. As a concrete application of the control of mesoscopic atomic samples in optical lattices we demonstrate the near deterministic preparation of Schrödinger cat states of all atoms residing on either the odd or the even sites.
5 pages, 4 figures, New revised version with new title, added references, corrected typos and unclarities
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