我们利用最近发现的当原子与经典控制场和量子探测场耦合时的动力学对称性,研究了探测光在$Λ$型原子系综中的传播{[Sun { \it et al.,}物理修订版信函{ \bf 91},147903(2003)]}。在双光子共振条件下,计算了原子集体激发下探测光的群速度。我们的结果给出了群速度对普通单光子失谐量的依赖关系,并与最近的实验(E。E.米哈伊洛夫,Y. V. Rostovtsev和G. R. Welch,quant-ph/0309173)。
英文摘要:
We study the propagation of a probe light in an ensemble of $Λ$-type atoms, utilizing the dynamic symmetry as recently discovered when the atoms are coupled to a classical control field and a quantum probe field {[Sun {\it et al.,} Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 91}, 147903 (2003)]}. Under two-photon resonance, we calculate the group velocity of the probe light with collective atomic excitations. Our result gives the dependence of the group velocity on the common one-photon detuning, and can be compared with the recent experiment (E. E. Mikhailov, Y. V. Rostovtsev, and G. R. Welch, quant-ph/0309173).
Spin-polarised atomic ensembles probed by light based on the Faraday interaction are a versatile platform for numerous applications in quantum metrology and quantum information processing. Here we consider an ensemble of Alkali atoms that are continuously optically pumped and probed. Due to the collective scattering of photons at large optical depth, the steady state of atoms does not correspond to an uncorrelated tensor-product state, as is usually assumed. We introduce a self-consistent method to approximate the steady state including the pair correlations, taking into account the multilevel…
Quantum Memory Based on $Λ$-Atoms Ensemble with Two-Photon Resonance EIT
研究了基于$Λ$ -原子系综的量子存储器,用于存储探测光场携带的量子信息。系综中的两个原子拉比跃迁分别与量子探测场和经典控制场以相同的失谐量耦合。利用最近针对共振EIT情况开发的隐藏对称性分析(Sun,Li和Liu,Phys. Rev. Lett. 91,147903(2003)),我们证明了暗态和暗态极化激元仍然可以存在的情况下,双光子共振EIT。从这些暗态出发,我们构造了整个系统的一个完整的本征态类。为了实现量子信息的存储和提取,给出了绝热条件的显式形式。
Spin-wave excitations in ensembles of atoms are gaining attention as a quantum information resource. However, current techniques with atomic spin waves do not achieve universal quantum information processing. We conduct a theoretical analysis of methods to create a high-capacity universal quantum processor and network node using an ensemble of laser-cooled atoms, trapped in a one-dimensional periodic potential and coupled to a ring cavity. We describe how to establish linear quantum processing using a lambda-scheme in a rubidium-atom system, calculate the expected experimental operational fide…
Microscopic two-level system (TLS) defects at dielectric surfaces and interfaces are among the dominant sources of loss in superconducting quantum circuits, and their properties have been extensively probed using superconducting resonators and qubits. We report on spectroscopy of TLSs coupling to the strain field in a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator. The narrow free spectral range of the resonator allows for two-tone spectroscopy where a strong pump is applied at one resonance while a weak signal is used to probe a different mode. We map the spectral hole burnt by the pump tone as a func…
We investigate eigenstate thermalization from the point of view of vanishing particle and heat currents between a few-body fermionic Hamiltonian prepared in one of its eigenstates and an external, weakly coupled Fermi-Dirac gas. The latter acts as a thermometric probe, with its temperature and chemical potential set so that there is neither particle nor heat current between the two subsystems. We argue that the probe temperature can be attributed to the few-fermion eigenstate in the sense that (i) it varies smoothly with energy from eigenstate to eigenstate, (ii) it is equal to the temperature…
A coherent ensemble of spins interfaced with a proxy qubit is an attractive platform to create many-body coherences and probe the regime of collective excitations. An electron spin qubit in a semiconductor quantum dot can act as such an interface to the dense nuclear spin ensemble within the quantum dot consisting of multiple high-spin atomic species. Earlier work has shown that the electron can relay properties of its nuclear environment through the statistics of its mean-field interaction with the total nuclear polarisation, namely its mean and variance. Here, we demonstrate a method to prob…
The most direct approach for characterizing the quantum dynamics of a strongly-interacting system is to measure the time-evolution of its full many-body state. Despite the conceptual simplicity of this approach, it quickly becomes intractable as the system size grows. An alternate framework is to think of the many-body dynamics as generating noise, which can be measured by the decoherence of a probe qubit. Our work centers on the following question: What can the decoherence dynamics of such a probe tell us about the many-body system? In particular, we utilize optically addressable probe spins …
We propose a scheme to distinguish the orbital angular momentum state of the Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam based on the electromagnetically induced transparency modulated by a microwave field in atomic ensembles. We show that the transverse phase variation of a probe beam with the LG mode can be mapped into the spatial intensity distribution due to the change of atomic coherence caused by the microwave. The proposal may provide a useful tool for studying higher-dimensional quantum information based on atomic ensembles.