Coherent control in atomic chains: To trap and release a traveling excitation
We introduce a protocol for dynamical dispersion engineering in an atomic chain formed by an ordered array of multilevel atoms with subwavelength lattice constant. This chain supports dark states that are protected from dissipation and can be understood as spin waves traveling along the array. By us...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2022-02-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013080 |
| Summary: | We introduce a protocol for dynamical dispersion engineering in an atomic chain formed by an ordered array of multilevel atoms with subwavelength lattice constant. This chain supports dark states that are protected from dissipation and can be understood as spin waves traveling along the array. By using an external control field with a spatially varying elliptical polarization we correlate internal and external degrees of freedom of the array in a controllable way. The coherent control over atomic states translates into control over the group velocity of the spin waves. A traveling excitation can be stored and released without dissipation by adiabatically changing the control field amplitude. This protocol is an alternative to the more conventional electromagnetically induced transparency and exemplifies the rich physics born of the interplay between coherent control and correlated decay. |
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| ISSN: | 2643-1564 |