Trapping and coherent manipulation of a Rydberg atom on a microfabricated device: a proposal

Details Trapping and coherent manipulation of a Rydberg atom on a microfabricated device: a proposal Trapping and coherent manipulation of a Rydberg atom on a microfabricated device: a proposal

2005-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506101v1

European Physical Journal D 35 (2005) 43

Physics

Quantum Physics

Accepted in EPJD

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjd/e2005-00184-7

We propose to apply atom-chip techniques to the trapping of a single atom in a circular Rydberg state. The small size of microfabricated structures will allow for trap geometries with microwave cut-off frequencies high enough to inhibit the spontaneous emission of the Rydberg atom, paving the way to complete control of both external and internal degrees of freedom over very long times. Trapping is achieved using carefully designed electric fields, created by a simple pattern of electrodes. We show that it is possible to excite, and then trap, one and only one Rydberg atom from a cloud of ground state atoms confined on a magnetic atom chip, itself integrated with the Rydberg trap. Distinct internal states of the atom are simultaneously trapped, providing us with a two-level system extremely attractive for atom-surface and atom-atom interaction studies. We describe a method for reducing by three orders of magnitude dephasing due to Stark shifts, induced by the trapping field, of the internal transition frequency. This allows for, in combination with spin-echo techniques, maintenance of an internal coherence over times in the second range. This method operates via a controlled light shift rendering the two internal states' Stark shifts almost identical. We thoroughly identify and account for sources of imperfection in order to verify at each step the realism of our proposal.

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