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Published February 28, 2012 | Erratum + Submitted + Published
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A state-insensitive, compensated nanofiber trap

Abstract

Laser trapping and interfacing of laser-cooled atoms in an optical fiber network is an important tool for quantum information science. Following the pioneering work of Balykin et al (2004 Phys. Rev. A 70 011401) and Vetsch et al (2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 203603), we propose a robust method for trapping single cesium atoms with a two-color state-insensitive evanescent wave around a dielectric nanofiber. Specifically, we show that vector light shifts (i.e. effective inhomogeneous Zeeman broadening of the ground states) induced by the inherent ellipticity of the forward-propagating evanescent wave can be effectively canceled by a backward-propagating evanescent wave. Furthermore, by operating the trapping lasers at the magic wavelengths, we remove the differential scalar light shift between ground and excited states, thereby allowing for resonant driving of the optical D_2 transition. This scheme provides a promising approach to trap and probe neutral atoms with long trap and coherence lifetimes with realistic experimental parameters.

Additional Information

© 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Received 24 October 2011. Published 28 February 2012. We gratefully acknowledge interactions with E S Polzik and M Pototschnig. Funding was provided by the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, by NSF grant no. PHY0652914, by the DoD NSSEFF program, by the AFOSR MURI for Quantum Memories and by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. AG was supported by the Nakajima Foundation.

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