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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2010

Cooperative atom-light interaction in a blockaded rydberg ensemble

D. Maxwell
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K. J. Weatherill
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M. P.A. Jones
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C. S. Addams
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Résumé

By coupling a probe transition to a Rydberg state using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) we map the strong dipole-dipole interactions onto an optical field. We characterize the resulting cooperative optical nonlinearity as a function of probe strength and density. We demonstrate good quantitative agreement between the experiment and an N-atom cooperative model for N=3 atoms per blockade sphere and the n=60 Rydberg state. The measured linewidth of the EIT resonance places an upper limit on the dephasing rate of the blockade spheres of <110 kHz.

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hal-00915866 , version 1 (09-12-2013)

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J. D. Pritchard, D. Maxwell, Alexandre Gauguet, K. J. Weatherill, M. P.A. Jones, et al.. Cooperative atom-light interaction in a blockaded rydberg ensemble. Physical Review Letters, 2010, 105 (19), 193603 [4 p.]. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.193603⟩. ⟨hal-00915866⟩
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