Cooperative atom-light interaction in a blockaded Rydberg ensemble

Details Cooperative atom-light interaction in a blockaded Rydberg ensemble Cooperative atom-light interaction in a blockaded Rydberg ensemble

2010-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/1006.4087v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193603 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.193603

By coupling a probe transition to a Rydberg state using electro-magnetically induced transparency (EIT) we map the strong dipole-dipole interactions onto an optical field. We characterize the resulting cooperative optical non-linearity as a function of probe strength and density. We show that the effect of dipole blockade cannot be described using a mean-field but requires an $N$-atom cooperative model. Good quantitative agreement is obtained for three atoms per blockade with the $n=60$ Rydberg state. We place an upper-limit on the dephasing rate of the blockade spheres of $<110$ kHz.

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