Single atom trapping and control inside a nanosize photonic crystal cavity
Quantum Physics
2013-01-23 v2 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We analyze a possibility to trap, control and load a single atom inside a nanosize cavity formed in a photonic crystal. We consider a 1D nanobeam crystal having two nearly degenerate localized modes with mode maxima at the central air gap, forming a cavity with a mode volume <\lambda^{3}. For this system we found that an atom can be trapped by a mode detuned from an atomic transition and controled by the second resonant mode. We show that atomic motion can be cooled using cavity-enhanced rf Sisyphus cooling. We also discuss how an atom can be loaded inside the nanosize crystal air gap from short-wavelength optical tweezers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1301.4559,
title = {Single atom trapping and control inside a nanosize photonic crystal cavity},
author = {Elena Kuznetsova and Johannes Feist and Qimin Quan and Jeff D. Thompson and Tobias Tiecke and Susanne F. Yelin and Mikhail D. Lukin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.4559},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
This paper has been withdrawn to include some critical changes