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Laser cooling is fundamental to quantum computation and metrology with trapped ions, and can occupy a majority of runtime in current systems. A key limitation to cooling arises from unwanted carrier excitation, which in typically used…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Zhenzhong Xing , Karan K. Mehta

We propose to cool a mechanical resonator close to its ground state via an electromagnetically-induced-transparency- (EIT-) like cooling mechanism in a double-cavity optomechanical system, where an additional cavity couples to the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yujie Guo , Kai Li , Wenjie Nie , Yong Li

We developed a multi-mode ground state cooling technique based on electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT). By involving an additional ground and excited state, two individually adjustable bright states together with a dark state are…

Laser cooling is fundamental to quantum computing and metrology using atomic systems. Precise control often requires cooling atoms' motional degrees of freedom to the quantum ground state, imposing operation time and architectural…

Stable transport of laser beams in highly over-dense plasmas is of significance in fast ignition of inertial confinement fusion, relativistic electrons generation, and powerful electromagnetic emission, but hard to realize. Early in 1996,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Tie-Huai Zhang , Wei-Min Wang , Yu-Tong Li , Jie Zhang

We realize a suppression of an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) like transmission in a metasurface induced by a local electric field that is strongly enhanced based on two approaches: squeezing of electromagnetic energy in…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-12 Yasuhiro Tamayama , Keisuke Hamada , Kanji Yasui

We use electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) laser cooling to cool motional modes of a linear ion chain. As a demonstration, we apply EIT cooling on $^{24}Mg^+$ ions to cool the axial modes of a $^9Be^+$ - $^{24}Mg^+$ ion pair and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 Y. Lin , J. P. Gaebler , T. R. Tan , R. Bowler , J. D. Jost , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

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

We demonstrate cooling of the motion of a single atom confined by a dipole trap inside a high-finesse optical resonator. Cooling of the vibrational motion results from EIT-like interference in an atomic \Lambda-type configuration, where one…

We discuss the dynamical behavior of the entanglement between the internal and the external degrees of freedom of a trapped atom in electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) laser cooling. It is shown that essential features of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Maryam Roghani , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Hanspeter Helm

A novel method of ground state laser cooling of trapped atoms utilizes the absorption profile of a three (or multi-) level system which is tailored by a quantum interference. With cooling rates comparable to conventional sideband cooling,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 F. Schmidt-Kaler , J. Eschner , G. Morigi , C. F. Roos , D. Leibfried , A. Mundt , R. Blatt

In electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT), the absorption of a probe beam is greatly reduced due to destructive interference between two dressed atomic states produced by a strong laser beam. Here we show that a similar reduction in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. D. Franson , S. M. Hendrickson

Electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) cooling is a ground-state cooling technique for trapped particles. EIT offers a broader cooling range in frequency space compared to more established methods. In this work, we experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 R. Lechner , C. Maier , C. Hempel , P. Jurcevic , B. P. Lanyon , T. Monz , M. Brownnutt , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

We discuss the use of electromagnetically modified absorption to achieve selective excitation in atoms: that is, the laser excitation of one transition while avoiding simultaneously exciting another transition whose frequency is the same as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. McDonnell , D. N. Stacey , A. M. Steane

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…

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

We present a numerical scheme to study the dynamics of slow light and light storage in an electromagneticallyinduced- transparency (EIT) medium at finite temperatures. Allowing for the motional coupling, we derive a set of coupled…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shih-Wei Su , Yi-Hsin Chen , Shih-Chuan Gou , Tzyy-Leng Horng , Ite A. Yu

Enhanced sensitivity in electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) can be obtained by the use of noise correlation spectroscopy between the fields involved in the process. Here, we investigate EIT in a cold ($< 1$ mK) rubidium vapor and…

We report experimental measurements showing how one can combine quantum interference and thermal Doppler shifts at room temperature to detect weak magnetic fields. We pump ${}^{87}$Rb atoms to a highly-excited, Rydberg level using a probe…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Shovan Kanti Barik , Silpa B S , M Venkat Ramana , Shovan Dutta , Sanjukta Roy

Dicke narrowing is a phenomena that dramatically reduces the Doppler width of spectral lines, due to frequent velocity-changing collisions. A similar phenomena occurs for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) resonances, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-18 M. Shuker , O. Firstenberg , R. Pugatch , A. Ben-Kish , A. Ron , N. Davidson