Electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms
Quantum Physics
2011-11-23 v2
Abstract
We present a theory of electromagnetically induced transparency in a cold ensemble of strongly interacting Rydberg atoms. Long-range interactions between the atoms constrain the medium to behave as a collection of superatoms, each comprising a blockade volume that can accommodate at most one Rydberg excitation. The propagation of a probe field is affected by its two-photon correlations within the blockade distance, which are strongly damped due to low saturation threshold of the superatoms. Our model is computationally very efficient and is in quantitative agreement with the results of recent experiment of Pritchard et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193603 (2010)].
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.1360,
title = {Electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms},
author = {David Petrosyan and Johannes Otterbach and Michael Fleischhauer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.1360},
year = {2011}
}
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