Entanglement of two individual neutral atoms using Rydberg blockade
Physical review letters, 2010•APS
We report the generation of entanglement between two individual Rb 87 atoms in hyperfine
ground states| F= 1, M= 1⟩ and| F= 2, M= 2⟩ which are held in two optical tweezers
separated by 4 μ m. Our scheme relies on the Rydberg blockade effect which prevents the
simultaneous excitation of the two atoms to a Rydberg state. The entangled state is
generated in about 200 ns using pulsed two-photon excitation. We quantify the
entanglement by applying global Raman rotations on both atoms. We measure that 61% of …
ground states| F= 1, M= 1⟩ and| F= 2, M= 2⟩ which are held in two optical tweezers
separated by 4 μ m. Our scheme relies on the Rydberg blockade effect which prevents the
simultaneous excitation of the two atoms to a Rydberg state. The entangled state is
generated in about 200 ns using pulsed two-photon excitation. We quantify the
entanglement by applying global Raman rotations on both atoms. We measure that 61% of …
We report the generation of entanglement between two individual atoms in hyperfine ground states and which are held in two optical tweezers separated by . Our scheme relies on the Rydberg blockade effect which prevents the simultaneous excitation of the two atoms to a Rydberg state. The entangled state is generated in about 200 ns using pulsed two-photon excitation. We quantify the entanglement by applying global Raman rotations on both atoms. We measure that 61% of the initial pairs of atoms are still present at the end of the entangling sequence. These pairs are in the target entangled state with a fidelity of 0.75.
