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Tutorial: Quantum Information & Cold Atoms

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<strong>Cold</strong> controlled collisions<br />

• consider two atoms in different internal states stored e.g. in an optical<br />

lattice<br />

• we move the lattice in a state dependent way, and induce a collision:<br />

the collision is sufficiently slow not to excite oscillations<br />

before ...<br />

during ...<br />

after collision<br />

atom 1 atom 2<br />

• phase gate via collisions ...<br />

cold atoms<br />

on site interaction =<br />

phase shift<br />

(coherent collision)<br />

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