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Phys. Rev. A 67, 013607 (2003) [11 pages]

Many-particle entanglement in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

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A. Micheli1, D. Jaksch1, J. I. Cirac1,2, and P. Zoller1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
2Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany

Received 16 May 2002; published 23 January 2003

We investigate schemes to dynamically create many-particle entangled states of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a very short time proportional to 1/N, where N is the number of condensate particles. For small N we compare exact numerical calculations with analytical semiclassical estimates and find very good agreement for N>~50. We also estimate the effect of decoherence on our scheme, study possible scenarios for measuring the entangled states, and investigate experimental imperfections.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.013607
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.67.013607
PACS:
03.75.Gg, 03.75.Mn, 42.50.Ct