Quantum sensing protocol for motionally chiral Rydberg atoms
Quantum Physics
2023-10-20 v1
Abstract
A quantum sensing protocol is proposed for demonstrating the motion-induced chirality of circularly polarised Rydberg atoms. To this end, a cloud of Rydberg atoms is dressed by a bichromatic light field. This allows to exploit the long-lived ground states for implementing a Ramsey interferometer in conjunction with a spin echo pulse sequence for refocussing achiral interactions. Optimal parameters for the dressing lasers are identified. Combining a circularly polarised dipole transition in the Rydberg atom with atomic centre-of-mass motion, the system becomes chiral. The resulting discriminatory chiral energy shifts induced by a chiral mirror are estimated using a macroscopic quantum electrodynamics approach.
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@article{arxiv.2012.12959,
title = {Quantum sensing protocol for motionally chiral Rydberg atoms},
author = {Stefan Yoshi Buhmann and Steffen Giesen and Mira Diekmann and Robert Berger and Stefan Aull and Markus Debatin and Peter Zahariev and Kilian Singer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12959},
year = {2023}
}