Bright and dark excitons in an atom--pair filled optical lattice within a cavity

Details Bright and dark excitons in an atom--pair filled optical lattice within a cavity Bright and dark excitons in an atom--pair filled optical lattice within a cavity

2007-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/0707.4432v1

Europhys. Lett. 82, 14001 (2008).

Physics

Quantum Physics

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/82/14001

We study electronic excitations of a degenerate gas of atoms trapped in pairs in an optical lattice. Local dipole-dipole interactions produce a long lived antisymmetric and a short lived symmetric superposition of individual atomic excitations as the lowest internal on-site excitations. Due to the much larger dipole moment the symmetric states couple efficiently to neighbouring lattice sites and can be well represented by Frenkel excitons, while the antisymmetric dark states stay localized. Within a cavity only symmetric states couple to cavity photons inducing long range interactions to form polaritons. We calculate their dispersion curves as well as cavity transmission and reflection spectra to observe them. For a lattice with aspherical sites bright and dark states get mixed and their relative excitation energies depend on photon polarizations. The system should allow to study new types of solid state phenomena in atom filled optical lattices.

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