Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting

C. Marletto; D. Coles; T. Farrow; V. Vedral

DOI:10.1088/2399-6528/AAE224

Corpus ID: 119236759

Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting

@inproceedings{Marletto2017EntanglementBL,
  title={Entanglement between living bacteria and quantized light witnessed by Rabi splitting},
  author={C. Marletto and D. Coles and T. Farrow and V. Vedral},
  year={2017}
}

C. Marletto, D. Coles, +1 author V. Vedral

Published 2017

Mathematics, Physics

We model recent experiments on living sulphur bacteria interacting with quantised light, using the Dicke model. Our analysis shows that the strong coupling between the bacteria and the light, when both are treated quantum-mechanically, indicates that in those experiments there is entanglement between the bacteria (modelled as dipoles) and the quantised light (modelled as a single quantum harmonic oscillator). The existence of lower polariton branch due to the vacuum Rabi splitting, measured in… CONTINUE READING

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