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Title: Qubit Residence Time Measurements with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN (United Kingdom)

We show that an electrostatic qubit located near a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a symmetric double-well potential can be used to measure the duration the qubit has spent in one of its quantum states. The strong, medium, and weak measurement regimes are analyzed. The analogy between the residence and the traversal (tunnelling) times is highlighted.

OSTI ID:
21319488
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 23; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.230405; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English