Steady Fock states via atomic reservoir
F. O. Prado, W. Rosado, G. D. de Moraes Neto, M. H. Y. Moussa · Europhysics Letters (EPL) · 2014
In this letter we present a strategy that combines the action of cavity damping mechanisms with that of an engineered atomic reservoir to drive an initial thermal distribution to a Fock equilibrium state. The same technique can be used to slice probability distributions in the Fock space, thus allowing the preparation of a variety of nonclassical equilibrium states.