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Heralded single-phonon preparation in diamond

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Publication Date2019-01-01
AuthorsSantiago Tarrago Velez, Kilian Seibold, Mitchell D. Anderson, Vivishek Sudhir, Christophe Galland
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique FĂ©dĂ©rale de Lausanne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mechanical oscillators have key technological applications, but extending their use for quantum technologies requires creating well defined quantum states. We demonstrate that we can create the n=1 phonon Fock state in diamond by using a combination of Raman scattering from ultra-fast laser pulses and time-correlated single photon counting.