Vacuum-assisted generation and control of atomic coherences at x-ray energies
Abstract
The control of light-matter interaction at the quantum level usually requires coherent laser fields. But already an exchange of virtual photons with the electromagnetic vacuum field alone can lead to quantum coherences, which subsequently suppress spontaneous emission. We demonstrate such spontaneously generated coherences (SGC) in a large ensemble of nuclei operating in the x-ray regime, resonantly coupled to a common cavity environment. The observed SGC originates from two fundamentally different mechanisms related to cooperative emission and magnetically controlled anisotropy of the cavity vacuum. This approach opens new perspectives for quantum control, quantum state engineering and simulation of quantum many-body physics in an essentially decoherence-free setting.
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@article{arxiv.1305.0878,
title = {Vacuum-assisted generation and control of atomic coherences at x-ray energies},
author = {Kilian P. Heeg and Hans-Christian Wille and Kai Schlage and Tatyana Guryeva and Daniel Schumacher and Ingo Uschmann and Kai S. Schulze and Berit Marx and Tino Kämpfer and Gerhard G. Paulus and Ralf Röhlsberger and Jörg Evers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0878},
year = {2015}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures