Photon Subtraction by Many-Body Decoherence

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Photon Subtraction by Many-Body Decoherence
المؤلفون: Murray, Callum R., Mirgorodskiy, Ivan, Tresp, Christoph, Braun, Christoph, Paris-Mandoki, Asaf, Gorshkov, Alexey V., Hofferberth, Sebastian, Pohl, Thomas
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113601 (2018)
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Quantum Physics
الوصف: We experimentally and theoretically investigate the scattering of a photonic quantum field from another stored in a strongly interacting atomic Rydberg ensemble. Considering the many-body limit of this problem, we derive an exact solution to the scattering-induced spatial decoherence of multiple stored photons, allowing for a rigorous understanding of the underlying dissipative quantum dynamics. Combined with our experiments, this analysis reveals a correlated coherence-protection process in which the scattering from one excitation can shield all others from spatial decoherence. We discuss how this effect can be used to manipulate light at the quantum level, providing a robust mechanism for single-photon subtraction, and experimentally demonstrate this capability.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.113601
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10047
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.1710.10047
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.113601