Cross-Kerr effective Hamiltonian for a non-resonant four-level atom
Abstract
We derive a cross-Kerr type effective Hamiltonian for the four-level atom interacting with three electromagnetic fields in the N-configuration. When the atom has relaxed into the ground state a cross-Kerr nonlinearity arises between two weak probe fields. As a development on earlier work we show in general that the atom will also display a linear and self-Kerr response. However, if certain resonance conditions are satisfied then the linear and self-Kerr interactions will vanish. The electrical susceptibilities of the probe transitions are also explored and it is shown that a large, pure cross-Kerr nonlinearity can be generated with vanishing absorption of both probe fields.
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@article{arxiv.0711.1808,
title = {Cross-Kerr effective Hamiltonian for a non-resonant four-level atom},
author = {Gary F. Sinclair and Natalia Korolkova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.1808},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A, Replacement: added Acknowledgments section