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View SchemaHigh efficiency Nondistortion Quantum Interrogation of atoms in quantum superpositions
| Authors | Xingxiang Zhou, Zheng-Wei Zhou, Guang-Can Guo, Marc J. Feldman |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0105023 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105023 |
Abstract
We consider the nondistortion quantum interrogation (NQI) of an atom prepared in a quantum superposition. By manipulating the polarization of the probe photon and making connections to interaction free measurements of opaque objects, we show that nondistortion interrogation of an atom in a quantum superposition can be done with efficiency approaching unity. However, if any component of the atom's superposition is completely transparent to the probe wave function, a nondistortion interrogation of the atom is impossible.
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