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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
23
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-12-19
pubmed:abstractText
We observe that a mesoscopic field made of several tens of microwave photons exhibits quantum features when interacting with a single Rydberg atom in a high-Q cavity. The field is split into two components whose phases differ by an angle inversely proportional to the square root of the average photon number. The field and the atomic dipole are phase entangled. These manifestations of photon graininess vanish at the classical limit. This experiment opens the way to studies of large quantum state superpositions at the quantum-classical boundary.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0031-9007
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
91
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
230405
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Entanglement of a mesoscopic field with an atom induced by photon graininess in a cavity.
pubmed:affiliation
Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article