Dissipative Many-body Quantum Optics in Rydberg Media
Abstract
We develop a theoretical framework for the dissipative propagation of quantized light in interacting optical media under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). The theory allows us to determine the peculiar spatiotemporal structure of the output of two complementary Rydberg-EIT-based light-processing modules: the recently demonstrated single-photon filter and the recently proposed single-photon subtractor, which, respectively, let through and absorb a single photon. In addition to being crucial for applications of these and other optical quantum devices, the theory opens the door to the study of exotic dissipative many-body dynamics of strongly interacting photons in nonlinear nonlocal media.
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@article{arxiv.1211.7060,
title = {Dissipative Many-body Quantum Optics in Rydberg Media},
author = {Alexey V. Gorshkov and Rejish Nath and Thomas Pohl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.7060},
year = {2013}
}
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Main text: 4 pages plus references, 3 figures. Supplementary info.: 4 pages