Creation and detection of photonic molecules in Rydberg gases
Moos M, Unanyan R, Fleischhauer M (2017)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2017
Journal
Book Volume: 96
Article Number: 023853
Journal Issue: 2
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.023853
Abstract
We consider the propagation of photons in a gas of Rydberg atoms under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency, where they form strongly interacting massive particles, termed Rydberg polaritons. Depending on the strength of the van der Waals-type interactions of the atoms either bunching or antibunching of photons can be observed when driving the atoms off-resonantly. The bunching is associated with the formation of bound states. We employ a Green's function approach and numerical wave-function simulations to analyze the conditions for the creation and the dynamics of these photonic molecules and their interplay with the scattering continuum which can also show photon bunching. Analytic solutions of the pair-propagation problem obtained from a pseudopotential approximation and verified numerically provide a detailed understanding of bound and scattering states. We find that the scattering contributions acquire asymptotically a robust relative phase which can be employed to separate bound state and scattering contributions by a homodyne detection scheme.
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APA:
Moos, M., Unanyan, R., & Fleischhauer, M. (2017). Creation and detection of photonic molecules in Rydberg gases. Physical Review A, 96(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.023853
MLA:
Moos, Matthias, Razmik Unanyan, and Michael Fleischhauer. "Creation and detection of photonic molecules in Rydberg gases." Physical Review A 96.2 (2017).
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