Entangled mechanical oscillators

J. D. Jost (), J. P. Home, J. M. Amini, D. Hanneke, R. Ozeri, C. Langer, J. J. Bollinger, D. Leibfried and D. J. Wineland
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J. D. Jost: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
J. P. Home: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
J. M. Amini: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
D. Hanneke: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
R. Ozeri: Weizmann Institute of Science
C. Langer: Lockheed Martin, Denver, Colorado 80127, USA
J. J. Bollinger: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
D. Leibfried: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
D. J. Wineland: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA

Nature, 2009, vol. 459, issue 7247, 683-685

Abstract: Entangled vibrations Superposition and entanglement are hallmarks of quantum mechanics, and are usually demonstrated for properties such as electron spin and photon polarization. Now with the demonstration of entanglement between distinct mechanical oscillators — familiar at a larger scale as springs or pendula — these esoteric phenomena take a tentative step nearer the world of our everyday existence. Jost et al. demonstrate entanglement between separated mechanical oscillators, consisting of the vibrational states of two pairs of atomic ions held in different locations. Such experiments may open the way to the generation of entangled states of larger-scale mechanical oscillators and the scaling-up of quantum information processing based on trapped ions.

Date: 2009
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