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Using a dynamical quantum Zeno effect, we propose a general approach to control the coupling between a two-level system (TLS) and its surroundings, by modulating the energy level spacing of the TLS with a high frequency signal. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Lan Zhou , S. Yang , Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

The quantum Zeno effect refers to slowing down of the decay of a quantum system that is affected by frequent measurements. Nowadays, the significance of this paradigm is extended far beyond quantum systems, where it was introduced, finding…

Previously, we had proposed an optically-pumped five-level Gain EIT (GEIT) system, which has a transparency dip superimposed on a gain profile and exhibits a negative dispersion suitable for the white-light-cavity signal-recycling (WLC-SR)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 Minchuan Zhou , Zifan Zhou , Selim M. Shahriar

In this work we realize a narrow spectroscopic feature using a technique that we refer to as magnetically-induced optical transparency. A cold ensemble of $^{88}$Sr atoms interacts with a single mode of a high-finesse optical cavity via the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Matthew N. Winchester , Matthew A. Norcia , Julia R. K. Cline , James K. Thompson

Electromagnetically induced transparency has the unique ability to optically control transparency windows with low light in atomic systems. However, its practical applications in quantum physics and information science are limited due to…

Optical switching remains a key outstanding challenge for scalable fault-tolerant photonic quantum computing due to the trade-off between speed, bandwidth, and loss. Scalable quantum photonics demands all three, to enable high computational…

We present an experimental proposal to achieve a strong photon blockade by employing electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with single alkaline-earth-metal atom trapped in an optical cavity. In the presence of optical Stark shift,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Jing Tang , Yuangang Deng , Chaohong Lee

Transparent conductive oxides (TCO) enable confinement of charge-sensitive ions and Rydberg atoms proximal to dielectric structures including waveguides and photon detectors. However, optical loss precludes the use of TCOs within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Wance Wang , Dhruv Fomra , Amit Agrawal , Henri J. Lezec , Joseph W. Britton

We present a multifunctional on-chip optical device utilizing epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials, allowing precise beam control through phase modulation. This design acts as both an all-optical switch and a tunable beam splitter,…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-17 Yu Peng

We demonstrate the existence of the phenomenon of the inverse electromagnetically induced transparency (IEIT) in an opto mechanical system consisting of a nanomechanical mirror placed in an optical cavity. We show that two weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. S. Agarwal , Sumei Huang

We show that a pair of quantized cavity modes interacting with a spectrally broadened ensemble of Lambda-type atoms is analogous to an ensemble of two level systems coupled to a bosonic reservoir. This provides the possibility for an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gor Nikoghosyan , Michael Fleischhauer

We propose a scheme to exchange optical vortices of slow light using the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a four-level double-$\Lambda$ atom-light coupling scheme illuminated by a pair of probe fields as well…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-01 Hamid Reza Hamedi , Julius Ruseckas , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Coherent interaction of laser radiation with multilevel atoms and molecules can lead to quantum interference in the electronic excitation pathways. A prominent example observed in atomic three-level-systems is the phenomenon of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 S. Weis , R. Riviere , S. Deleglise , E. Gavartin , O. Arcizet , A. Schliesser , T. J. Kippenberg

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) plays an elegant role of studying strong coupling between light and matter. However, a non-mechanical, direct and dynamical control of the used mirrors is still unavailable. Here we theoretically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-31 Shih-Wei Su , Zhen-Kai Lu , Nina Rohringer , Shih-Chuan Gou , Wen-Te Liao

We discuss the feasibility of negative refraction with reduced absorption in coherently driven atomic media. Coherent coupling of an electric and a magnetic dipole transition by laser fields induces magneto-electric cross-coupling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jürgen Kästel , Michael Fleischhauer , Susanne F. Yelin , Ronald L. Walsworth

This paper theoretically analyzes the optical transmission characteristics of an optical waveguide when coupling to a micro cavity array. The results showed that not only were there sharp peaks on the transmission and reflection spectra,…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-08 Yang Bin , Li Heling , Zhao Hongsheng , Yang Tao

We propose a strategy to demonstrate the transition from the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) to the anti-Zeno effect (AZE) by modulating the central frequency of the cavity mode. Our results are obtained without using the rotating wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Xiufeng Cao , Qing Ai , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

A novel ultrafast all-optical switching mechanism is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally based on a plasmonic analog of the effect of \textit{Enhancement of Index of Refraction}(EIR) in quantum optics. In the quantum optical EIR…

This paper intends to realize negative refraction with absorption suppressed by the electromagneticly induced transparency(EIT) in a dense four-level atomic system. Without the two equal transition frequencies responding to the probe field,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Shun-Cai Zhao

We investigate the controllability of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Fano resonances in hybrid optomechanical system which is composed of cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped inside high-finesse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-28 Kashif Ammar Yasir , Wu-Ming Liu