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Phys. Rev. A 53, 4534–4538 (1996)

Optimized preparation of quantum states by conditional measurements

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G. Harel and G. Kurizki
Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

J. K. McIver and E. Coutsias
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
Department of Mathematics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

Received 28 July 1995; published in the issue dated June 1996

We introduce a general strategy for preparation of arbitrary quantum states via optimal control of repeated conditional measurements. The effectiveness of this strategy in generating finite Fock-state superpositions with a high level of confidence from experimentally accessible coherent states is demonstrated for the simple and well known Jaynes-Cummings model dynamics. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.53.4534
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.53.4534
PACS:
42.50.Dv, 32.80.-t