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Published June 1, 2012 | Submitted + Published
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Cavity QED with atomic mirrors

Abstract

A promising approach to merge atomic systems with scalable photonics has emerged recently, which consists of trapping cold atoms near tapered nanofibers. Here, we describe a novel technique to achieve strong, coherent coupling between a single atom and photon in such a system. Our approach makes use of collective enhancement effects, which allow a lattice of atoms to form a high-finesse cavity within the fiber. We show that a specially designated 'impurity' atom within the cavity can experience strongly enhanced interactions with single photons in the fiber. Under realistic conditions, a 'strong coupling' regime can be reached, wherein it becomes feasible to observe vacuum Rabi oscillations between the excited impurity atom and a single cavity quantum. This technique can form the basis for a scalable quantum information network using atom–nanofiber systems.

Additional Information

© 2012 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Received 16 March 2012; Published 1 June 2012. The authors thank O Painter, A Goban, D Ding, M Pototschnig and J I Cirac for valuable discussions. DEC acknowledges support from Fundació Privada Cellex Barcelona. LJ acknowledges support from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and the NBRPC (973 program) 2011CBA00300 (2011CBA00301). AVG acknowledges support from the Lee A DuBridge Foundation. Funding at Caltech is provided by the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, by NSF grant PHY0652914, by the DoD NSSEFF program, and by the AFOSR MURI for Quantum Memories.

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