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Published April 9, 2013 | Supplemental Material + Published
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Dissipative Many-Body Quantum Optics in Rydberg Media

Abstract

We develop a theoretical framework for the dissipative propagation of quantized light under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency in atomic media involving strongly interacting Rydberg states. The theory allows us to determine the peculiar spatiotemporal structure of the output of the recently demonstrated single-photon filter and the recently proposed single-photon subtractor, which, respectively, let through and absorb a single photon. In addition to being crucial for applications of these and other optical quantum devices, the theory opens the door to the study of exotic dissipative many-body dynamics of strongly interacting photons in nonlinear nonlocal media.

Additional Information

© 2013 American Physical Society. Received 29 November 2012; published 9 April 2013. We thank M. Lukin, V. Vuletić, O. Firstenberg, T. Peyronel, Q.-Y. Liang, J. Preskill, M. Fleischhauer, J. Otterbach, D. Petrosyan, J. Honer, T. Lee, S. Hofferberth, T. Pfau, P. Grangier, and C. Adams for discussions. This work was supported by NSF, IQIM, the Lee A. DuBridge and Gordon and Betty Moore foundations, KITP and the EU through the Marie Curie ITN COHERENCE and STREP QuILMI.

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