Stroboscopic quantum nondemolition measurements for enhanced entanglement generation between atomic ensembles

Abstract

We develop a measurement operator formalism to handle quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement induced entanglement generation between two atomic gases. We first derive how the QND entangling scheme reduces to a positive operator valued measure (POVM), and consider its limiting case when it is a projection operator that collapses the state to a total spin projection state. We then analyze how a stroboscopic sequence of such projections made in the x and z basis evolves the initial wavefunction. We show that for this projection sequence there exists a unique basis where the state evolution can be simplified. This allows one to derive the exact state evolution in a highly efficient manner. Our formalism does not use the Holstein-Primakoff approximation as is conventionally done, and treats the spins of the atomic gases in an exact way.