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Bogoliubov theory of entanglement in a Bose-Einstein condensate

arXiv:cond-mat/0110372 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.043610

Abstract

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate which is illuminated by a short resonant light pulse that coherently couples two internal states of the atoms. We show that the subsequent time evolution prepares the atoms in an interesting entangled state called a spin squeezed state. This evolution is analysed in detail by developing a Bogoliubov theory which describes the entanglement of the atoms. Our calculation is a consistent expansion in , where is the number of particles in the condensate, and our theory predict that it is possible to produce spin squeezing by at least a factor of . Within the Bogoliubov approximation this result is independent of temperature.

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