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We show that very large nonlocal nonlinear interactions between pairs of colliding slow-light pulses can be realized in atomic vapors in the regime of electromagnetically induced transparency. These nonlinearities are mediated by strong,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Inbal Friedler , David Petrosyan , Michael Fleischhauer , Gershon Kurizki

We report a detailed investigation on the properties of correlation spectra for cold atoms under the condition of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT). We describe the transition in the system from correlation to anti-correlation…

Extending optical nonlinearity into the extremely weak light regime is at the heart of quantum optics, since it enables the efficient generation of photonic entanglement and implementation of photonic quantum logic gate. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Biao Xu , Gen-Sheng Ye , Yue Chang , Tao Shi , Lin Li

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is a signature of quantum interference in an atomic three-level system. By driving the dressed cavity-qubit states of a two-dimensional circuit QED system, we generate a set of polariton states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Junling Long , H. S. Ku , Xian Wu , Xiu Gu , Russell E. Lake , Mustafa Bal , Yu-xi Liu , David P. Pappas

We experimentally demonstrate the Talbot effect resulting from the repeated self-reconstruction of a spatially intensity-modulated probe field under the Fresnel near-field regime. By launching the probe beam into an optically induced atomic…

The advantage of optical bistability (OB) using three-level electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) atomic system over the two-level system is its controllability, as absorption, dispersion, and optical nonlinearity in one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Juan D. Serna , Amitabh Joshi

Realizing systems that support robust, controlled interactions between individual photons is an exciting frontier of nonlinear optics. To this end, one approach that has emerged recently is to leverage atomic interactions to create strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 James S. Douglas , Tommaso Caneva , Darrick E. Chang

We report the enhanced optical transmission in the coherent, off-resonant excitation of Rydberg atom gases at room temperature via a two-photon process. Here thermal resonance-enhanced transparency (TRET) is induced when the detuning of the…

We investigate the interaction between non-classical light with a tunable multiphoton component and a highly nonlinear medium based on cold Rydberg atoms. The non-classical field emitted by a DLCZ quantum memory is stored using Rydberg…

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is predicted for x rays in laser-dressed neon gas. The x-ray photoabsorption cross section and polarizability near the Ne K edge are calculated using an ab initio theory suitable for optical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Buth , Robin Santra , Linda Young

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and EIT-like effects have been investigated in a wide variety of coupled resonant systems. Here, a classification of the phase characteristics of the EIT-like spectral responses is presented.…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-07 Xiaoyan Zhou , Lin Zhang , Wei Pang , Hao Zhang , Qingrui Yang , Daihua Zhang

For multi-level systems in hot atomic vapors the interplay between the Doppler shift due to atom velocity and the wavenubmer mismatch between driving laser fields strongly influences transmission and absorption properties of the atomic…

Electromagnetically induced transparency in an optically thick, cold medium creates a unique system where pulse-propagation velocities may be orders of magnitude less than $c$ and optical nonlinearities become exceedingly large. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Danielle A. Braje , Vlatko Balic , G. Y. Yin , S. E. Harris

We report on the observation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with intrinsic phase transitions in a three-level ladder system within rubidium atomic vapor. The observed abrupt transitions between low and high Rydberg…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-16 Lin Cheng , Kun Huang , Chunhui Shao , Fan Wu , Zhiyuan Xiong , Yanpeng Zhang

We construct the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) by dynamically coupling a superradiant state with a subradiant state. The superradiant and subradiant states with enhanced and inhibited decay rates act as the excited and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Wei Feng , Da-Wei Wang , Han Cai , Shi-Yao Zhu , Marlan O. Scully

Optical non-reciprocity is a fundamental phenomenon in photonics. It is crucial for developing devices that rely on directional signal control, such as optical isolators and circulators. However, most research in this field has focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Yunlong Xue , Zhengyang Bai

Combination of the electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) effect and Rydberg-state atoms has attracted great attention recently due to its potential application in the photon-photon interaction or qubit operation. In this work, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-04 Bo-Han Wu , Ya-Wen Chuang , Yi-Hsin Chen , Jr-Chiun Yu , Ming-Shien Chang , Ite A. Yu

Optically trapped Rydberg atoms are a suitable platform to explore quantum many-body physics mediated by long-range atom--atom interactions that can be engineered through externally applied light fields. However, this approach is limited to…

Highly excited Rydberg states of excitons in Cu$_2$O semiconductors provide a promising approach to explore and control strong particle interactions in a solid-state environment. A major obstacle has been the substantial absorption…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-28 Valentin Walther , Peter Grünwald , Thomas Pohl

Coupling light to Rydberg states of atoms under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) leads to the formation of strongly interacting quasi-particles, termed Rydberg polaritons. We derive a one-dimensional model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Matthias Moos , Michael Hoening , Razmik Unanyan , Michael Fleischhauer