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纠缠机械振荡器

Entangled Mechanical Oscillators

J. D. Jost, J. P. Home, J. M. Amini, D. Hanneke, R. Ozeri, C. Langer, J. J. Bollinger, D. Leibfried, D. J. Wineland

摘要:

量子力学的标志包括叠加和纠缠。在大型复杂系统的背景下,这些特征应该会导致像薛定谔猫这样的情况,它存在于与放射性原子核纠缠的活态和死态的叠加中。这种情况在自然界中是不存在的。这可能仅仅是由于我们无法将感兴趣的系统与周围环境充分隔离-技术限制。另一种可能性是某种尚未发现的机制,它阻止了宏观纠缠态的形成。这种限制可能取决于系统中基本成分的数量或纠缠的自由度的类型。在自然界中普遍存在的一个系统是不同的机械振荡器,它的纠缠以前没有被证明过。在这里,我们证明了确定性纠缠的分离的机械振荡器,由两对原子离子的振动状态举行的不同位置。我们还证明了原子离子的内部状态与一个遥远的机械振荡器的纠缠。

英文摘要:

Hallmarks of quantum mechanics include superposition and entanglement. In the context of large complex systems, these features should lead to situations like Schrodinger's cat, which exists in a superposition of alive and dead states entangled with a radioactive nucleus. Such situations are not observed in nature. This may simply be due to our inability to sufficiently isolate the system of interest from the surrounding environment -- a technical limitation. Another possibility is some as-of-yet undiscovered mechanism that prevents the formation of macroscopic entangled states. Such a limitation might depend on the number of elementary constituents in the system or on the types of degrees of freedom that are entangled. One system ubiquitous to nature where entanglement has not been previously demonstrated is distinct mechanical oscillators. Here we demonstrate deterministic entanglement of separated mechanical oscillators, consisting of the vibrational states of two pairs of atomic ions held in different locations. We also demonstrate entanglement of the internal states of an atomic ion with a distant mechanical oscillator.

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