ENTANGLEMENT ENGINEERING OF ONE-PHOTON WAVE-PACKETS USING A SINGLE-ATOM SOURCE

We propose a cavity-QED scheme for the controlled generation of sequen ces of entangled single-photon wave packets. A photon is created insid e a cavity via an active medium, such as an atom, and decays into the continuum of radiation modes outside the cavity. Subsequent wave packe ts generated in this way behave as independent logical quantum bits (q ubits). This and the possibility of producing maximally entangled mult i-qubit states suggest many applications in quantum communication. [S1 050-2947(98)51010-4].