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Quantum harmonic oscillator state synthesis and analysis

W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, D. M. Meekhof, D. Leibfried, B. E. King, D. J. Wineland

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9702038

Abstract

Experiments are described in which a single, harmonically bound, beryllium ion in a Paul trap is put into Fock, thermal, coherent, squeezed, and Schroedinger cat states. Experimental determinations of the density matrix and the Wigner function are described. A simple calculation of the decoherence of a superposition of coherent states due to an external electric field is given.

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