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WHAT: Generation of Maximally Entangled Coherent States and the Measurement of Parity

WHO: Christopher Gerry (City University of New York, Lehman College)

WHEN: 3:40PM WED 21 OCT 09

WHERE: 435 NICHOLSON HALL

ABSTRACT: I will discuss the technical details of our work on the generation of maximally entangle number and coherent states for the purpose of performing Heisenberg-limited interferometry and for related purposes such as quantum photo-lithography. I shall also discuss the details our work on methods to perform photon-number parity measurements that lead to improved interferometer.