Multi-component Entangled State Generation for Three-Level Atomic System with Hyperfine Structure via Dispersive Interactions

We discuss the generation of certain kinds of multi-component entangled states for three-level atomic system with hyperfine structure. The method proposed here is based on the interactions of dispersive cavity with only one atom driven by a strong classical field. It is shown that, with a judicious choice of the cavity detuning and applied coherent field detuning, the atom can interact dispersively with the quantized field but the classical driving field gives rise to the creation or destruction of photons conditional on the state of the system. In comparison with previous schemes, our method is likely to be extremely easy to realize in practice.