Heralded Interaction Control between Quantum Systems
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Duan, Yiheng; Hosseini, Mahdi; Beck, Kristin M; Vuletić, Vladan
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© 2020 American Physical Society. Quantum mechanical expectation values for subsets can differ substantially from those for the whole ensemble. This implies that the effect of interactions between two systems can be altered substantially by conditioning. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that, for two light fields ψS (signal) and ψA (ancilla) that have only weakly interacted with one another, subsequent measurements on the ancilla can produce substantial conditional amplification, attenuation, or phase shift of ψS. We observe conditional signal power changes over a large range of 30, and phase shift up to π/2, induced by measurements in ancilla bases that differ only slightly from one another. The method is generically applicable to a variety of systems, and allows one to modify or boost a given interaction by trading in success probability for interaction strength.
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2020Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of ElectronicsJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society (APS)