Thermal counting statistics in an atomic two-mode squeezed vacuum state

Perrier, Maxime; Amodjee, Ziyad; Dussarrat, Pierre; Dareau, Alexandre; Aspect, Alain; Cheneau, Marc; Boiron, Denis; Westbrook, Christoph

doi:10.21468/SciPostPhys.7.1.002

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Thermal counting statistics in an atomic two-mode squeezed vacuum state

Maxime Perrier, Ziyad Amodjee, Pierre Dussarrat, Alexandre Dareau, Alain Aspect, Marc Cheneau, Denis Boiron, Christoph I. Westbrook

SciPost Phys. 7, 002 (2019) · published 3 July 2019

doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.7.1.002
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Abstract

We measure the population distribution in one of the atomic twin beams generated by four-wave mixing in an optical lattice. Although the produced two-mode squeezed vacuum state is pure, each individual mode is described as a statistical mixture. We confirm the prediction that the particle number follows an exponential distribution when only one spatio-temporal mode is selected. We also show that this distribution accounts well for the contrast of an atomic Hong--Ou--Mandel experiment. These experiments constitute an important validation of our twin beam source in view of a future test of a Bell inequality.

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AB  - We measure the population distribution in one of the atomic twin beams generated by four-wave mixing in an optical lattice. Although the produced two-mode squeezed vacuum state is pure, each individual mode is described as a statistical mixture. We confirm the prediction that the particle number follows an exponential distribution when only one spatio-temporal mode is selected. We also show that this distribution accounts well for the contrast of an atomic Hong--Ou--Mandel experiment. These experiments constitute an important validation of our twin beam source in view of a future test of a Bell inequality.
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Bell inequalities Optical lattices Statistics Two-mode vacuum state

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¹ Maxime Perrier,
¹ Ziyad Amodjee,
¹ Pierre Dussarrat,
¹ Alexandre Dareau,
¹ Alain Aspect,
¹ Marc Cheneau,
¹ Denis Boiron,
¹ Christoph Westbrook

¹ Laboratoire Charles Fabry [LCF]

Funders for the research work leading to this publication

Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR]
European Commission [EC]
FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions (FP7 People) (through Organization: European Commission [EC])