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We report the use of broadband heterodyne spectroscopy to perform continuous measurement of the interaction energy between one atom and a high-finesse optical cavity, during individual transit events of $\sim 250$ $\mu$s duration.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hideo Mabuchi , Jun Ye , H. Jeff Kimble

As the realization of a fully operational quantum computer remains distant, quantum simulation, whereby one quantum system is engineered to simulate another, becomes a key goal of great practical importance. Here we report on a variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Sean Barrett , Klemens Hammerer , Sarah Harrison , Tracy E. Northup , Tobias J. Osborne

Laser-cooled gases of atoms interacting with the field of an optical cavity are a powerful tool for quantum sensing and the simulation of open and closed quantum systems. They can display spontaneous self-organisation phase transitions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 V. M. Schäfer , Z. Niu , J. R. K. Cline , D. J. Young , E. Y. Song , H. Ritsch , J. K. Thompson

We consider the problem of controlling the motion of an atom trapped in an optical cavity using continuous feedback. In order to realize such a scheme experimentally, one must be able to perform state estimation of the atomic motion in real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel A. Steck , Kurt Jacobs , Hideo Mabuchi , Salman Habib , Tanmoy Bhattacharya

The coherent emission of multiple atoms gives rise to superradiance, a cornerstone phenomenon in quantum optics with wide-ranging applications in quantum information processing and precision metrology. Despite its importance, how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Ruijin Sun , Xiang Guo , Andreas Ruschhaupt , Zhihai Wang

We investigate the different photon emission regimes created by a preexcited and collimated atomic beam passing through a single mode of an optical cavity. In the regime where the cavity degrees of freedom can be adiabatically eliminated,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Simon B. Jäger , Haonan Liu , Athreya Shankar , John Cooper , Murray J. Holland

Strong coupling between an atom and an electromagnetic resonator is an important condition in cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). While strong coupling in various physical systems has been achieved so far, it remained elusive for single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Hiroki Takahashi , Ezra Kassa , Costas Christoforou , Matthias Keller

The interaction of laser cooled and trapped atoms with resonant light is limited by the linewidth of the excited state of the atom. Another precise optical oscillator is an optical Fabry-P\'erot cavity. The combining of cold atoms with…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-19 Rahul Sawant , S. A. Rangwala

Many effects in the interaction between atoms and a cavity that are usually de-scribed in quantum mechanical terms (cavity quantum electrodynamics, cavity QED) can be understood and quantitatively analyzed within a classical framework. We…

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED) enables the control of light-matter interactions at the single-photon level, rendering it a key component of many quantum technologies. Its practical realization, however, is complex since it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 David Castells-Graells , J. Ignacio Cirac , Dominik S. Wild

Ultracold $^{87}$Rb atoms are delivered into a high-finesse optical micro-cavity using a translating optical lattice trap and detected via the cavity field. The atoms are loaded into an optical lattice from a magneto-optic trap (MOT) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Sauer , K. M. Fortier , M. S. Chang , C. D. Hamley , M. S. Chapman

We propose a scheme to generate cluster states of atomic qubits by using cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) and linear optics, in which each atom is confined in a resonant optical cavity with two orthogonally polarized modes. Our scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. L. Zhang , K. L. Gao , M. Feng

In this review article, we present the recent theoretical developments and some breakthrough experiments in cavity QED systems (optical and optomechanical systems) and also focus on the experimental realization of the theoretical proposals.

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-04 Kamanasish Debnath , Aranya B. Bhattacherjee

The already very active field of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), traditionally studied in atomic systems, has recently gained additional momentum by the advent of experiments with semiconducting and superconducting systems. In these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 J. M. Fink , M. Goeppl , M. Baur , R. Bianchetti , P. J. Leek , A. Blais , A. Wallraff

Cavity QED experiments are natural hosts for non-equilibrium phases of matter supported by photon-mediated interactions. In this work, we consider a cavity QED simulation of the BCS model of superfluidity, by studying regimes where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-02 Shane P. Kelly , James K. Thompson , Ana Maria Rey , Jamir Marino

We investigate the time evolution of the photon-detection probability at various output ports of an all-fiber coupled cavity-quantum-electrodynamics (cavity-QED) system. The setup consists of two atoms trapped separately in the field of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-23 Ross Shillito , Nikolett Német , Scott Parkins

A common experimental setup in cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) consists of a single two-level atom interacting with a single mode of the electromagnetic field inside an optical cavity. The cavity is externally driven and the output is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrei N. Soklakov , Ruediger Schack

Cavity cooling of an atom works best on a cyclic optical transition in the strong coupling regime near resonance, where small cavity photon numbers suffice for trapping and cooling. Due to the absence of closed transitions a straightforward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 R. J. Schulze , C. Genes , H. Ritsch

We show an optical wave-mixing scheme that generates quantum light by means of a single three-level atom. The atom couples to an optical cavity and two laser fields that together drive a cycling current within the atom. Weak driving in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 C. J. Villas-Boas , K. N. Tolazzi , B. Wang , C. Ianzano , G. Rempe

From fundamental studies of light-matter interaction to applications in quantum networking and sensing, cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) provides a platform-crossing toolbox to control interactions between atoms and photons. The…