Dissipative Many-Body Quantum Optics in Rydberg Media

Alexey V. Gorshkov, Rejish Nath, and Thomas Pohl
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 153601 – Published 9 April 2013
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Abstract

We develop a theoretical framework for the dissipative propagation of quantized light under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency in atomic media involving strongly interacting Rydberg states. The theory allows us to determine the peculiar spatiotemporal structure of the output of the recently demonstrated single-photon filter and the recently proposed single-photon subtractor, which, respectively, let through and absorb a single photon. In addition to being crucial for applications of these and other optical quantum devices, the theory opens the door to the study of exotic dissipative many-body dynamics of strongly interacting photons in nonlinear nonlocal media.

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  • Received 29 November 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.153601

© 2013 American Physical Society

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Alexey V. Gorshkov1,2, Rejish Nath3, and Thomas Pohl4

  • 1Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 2Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
  • 3Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
  • 4Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany

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Vol. 110, Iss. 15 — 12 April 2013

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