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Engineering quantum states, nonlinear measurements and anomalous diffusion by imaging

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Published 13 January 2011 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Kurt Jacobs and Daniel A Steck 2011 New J. Phys. 13 013016 DOI 10.1088/1367-2630/13/1/013016

1367-2630/13/1/013016

Abstract

We show that well-separated quantum superposition states, measurements of strongly nonlinear observables and quantum dynamics driven by anomalous diffusion can all be achieved for single atoms or molecules by imaging spontaneous photons that they emit via resonance florescence. To generate anomalous diffusion we introduce continuous measurements driven by Lévy processes and prove a number of results regarding their properties. In particular, we present strong evidence that the only stable Lévy density that can realize a strictly continuous measurement is the Gaussian.

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