Single Atom and Two Atom Ramsey Interferometry with Quantized Fields
arXiv:quant-ph/0207111 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.67.043807
Abstract
Implications of field quantization on Ramsey interferometry are discussed and general conditions for the occurrence of interference are obtained. Interferences do not occur if the fields in two Ramsey zones have precise number of photons. However in this case we show how two atom (like two photon) interferometry can be used to discern a variety of interference effects as the two independent Ramsey zones get entangled by the passage of first atom. Generation of various entangled states like |0,2>+|2,0> are discussed and in far off resonance case generation of entangled state of two coherent states is discussed.
20 pages, 5 figures, revised version. submitted to Phys. Rev. A
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