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Grating magneto-optical traps are an enabling quantum technology for portable metrological devices with ultracold atoms. However, beam diffraction efficiency and angle are affected by wavelength, creating a single-optic design challenge for…

Optical cavities are one of the best ways to increase atom-light coupling and will be a key ingredient for future quantum technologies that rely on light-matter interfaces. We demonstrate that traveling-wave "ring" cavities can achieve a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Kevin C. Cox , David H. Meyer , Nathan A. Schine , Fredrik K. Fatemi , Paul D. Kunz

The effect of a tunable, externally coupled Fabry-P\'{e}rot cavity to resonantly enhance the optical Hall effect signatures at terahertz frequencies produced by a traditional Drude-like two-dimensional electron gas is shown and discussed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 S. Knight , S. Schöche , V. Darakchieva , P. Kühne , J. -F. Carlin , N. Grandjean , C. M. Herzinger , M. Schubert , T. Hofmann

A system of magnetic molecules coupled to microwave cavities ($LC$ resonators) undergoes the equilibrium superradiant phase transition. The transition is experimentally observable. The effect of the coupling is first illustrated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Juan Román-Roche , Fernando Luis , David Zueco

We propose the use of quantum polarization spectroscopy for detecting multi-particle entanglement of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. This method, based on a light-matter interface employing the quantum Farady effect, allows for the non…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Gabriele De Chiara , Anna Sanpera

We demonstrate a cavity-enhanced room-temperature magnetic field sensor based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Magnetic resonance is detected using absorption of light resonant with the 1042 nm spin-singlet transition. The diamond is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 K. Jensen , N. Leefer , A. Jarmola , Y. Dumeige , V. M. Acosta , P. Kehayias , B. Patton , D. Budker

Cavity electrodynamics offers a unique avenue for tailoring ground-state material properties, excited-state engineering, and versatile control of quantum matter. Merging these concepts with high-field physics in the terahertz (THz) spectral…

The creation and detection of atomic polarization is examined theoretically, through the study of basic optical-pumping mechanisms and absorption and fluorescence measurements, and the dependence of these processes on the size of ground-…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. Auzinsh , D. Budker , S. M. Rochester

High-finesse planar Fabry-P{\'e}rot (FP) cavities spectrally filter the incident field at discrete resonances, and thus cannot be utilized to resonantly enhance the field of ultrashort pulses. Introducing judicious angular dispersion into a…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-15 Abbas Shiri , Kenneth L. Schepler , Ayman F. Abouraddy

A coherent coupling among different energy photons provided by nonlinear optical interaction is regarded as a photonic version of the Rabi oscillation. Cavity enhancement of the nonlinearity reduces energy requirement significantly and…

Time-resolved Faraday rotation spectroscopy is currently exploited as a powerful technique to probe spin dynamics in semiconductors. We propose here an all-optical approach to geometrically manipulate electron spin and to detect the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin-Qi Li , Cheng-Yong Hu , Li-Xiang Cen , Hou-Zhi Zheng , YiJing Yan

We demonstrate compact and accessible squeezed-light magnetometry using four-wave mixing in a single hot rubidium vapor cell. The strong intrinsic coherence of the four wave mixing process results in nonlinear magneto-optical rotation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Otterstrom , R. C. Pooser , B. J. Lawrie

We study the collective motion of atoms confined in an optical lattice operating inside a high finesse ring cavity. A simplified theoretical model for the dynamics of the system is developed upon the assumption of adiabaticity of the atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Th. Elsaesser , B. Nagorny , A. Hemmerich

Sensing chirality is of fundamental importance to many fields, including analytical and biological chemistry, pharmacology, and fundamental physics. Recent developments have extended optical chiral sensing using microwaves, fs pulses,…

We describe a system for the compensation of time-dependent stray magnetic fields using a dual channel scalar magnetometer based on non-linear Faraday rotation in synchronously optically pumped Cs vapour. We detail the active control…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-02 Jacopo Belfi , Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Roberto Cecchi , Yordanka Dancheva , Luigi Moi

The utilization of polarized targets in scattering experiments has become a common practice in many major accelerator laboratories. Noble gases are especially suitable for such applications, since they can be easily hyper-polarized using…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-20 Gretchen Phelps , Josh Abney , Mark Broering , Wolfgang Korsch

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas interacting with a quantized cavity mode. We find that the coupling between the electrons and the photons in the cavity enhances the superconducting gap. Crucially, all terms in the Peierls phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Valerii K. Kozin , Even Thingstad , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We present a novel atom interferometer configuration that combines large momentum transfer with the enhancement of an optical resonator for the purpose of measuring gravitational strain in the horizontal directions. Using Bragg diffraction…

We report on the first observation of nonlinear Faraday rotation with cold atoms at a temperature of ~100 uK. The observed nonlinear rotation of the light polarization plane is up to 0.1 rad over the 1 mm size atomic cloud in approximately…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adam Wojciechowski , Eric Corsini , Jerzy Zachorowski , Wojciech Gawlik

It is generally believed that the magneto-optical Faraday effect appears in the the bulk of a magnetic material and its sign is fully determined by the sign of the non-diagonal permittivity element. Here we reveal an additional contribution…