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Tutorial: Quantum Information & Cold Atoms

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atoms cont.<br />

• superposition of the two ground states: coherent spin state<br />

1 2<br />

Bloch vector<br />

• quantum fluctuations<br />

S y a , Sz a iSx a<br />

S y a Sz a 1<br />

2 |S x a |<br />

we treat S x a classically and rescale<br />

X a , P a i X a P a 1<br />

2<br />

canonical communation relations<br />

1<br />

2<br />

|1 |2 N<br />

S a Sx a , Sy a , Sz a N a<br />

2 ,0,0<br />

x<br />

P a<br />

Bloch picture<br />

z<br />

X a<br />

| 46<br />

a dXa |XaX a y<br />

coherent spin state =vacuum state<br />

there are many cv quantum states<br />

around it:

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