Coherent single-atom superradiance
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Publication:4967538
DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.AAR2179zbMATH Open1416.81031arXiv1705.09136OpenAlexW3105443695WikidataQ59714594 ScholiaQ59714594MaRDI QIDQ4967538
Kyungwon An, Seung-Hoon Oh, Junki Kim, Daeho Yang
Publication date: 3 July 2019
Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Quantum effects, prevalent in the microscopic scale, generally elusive in macroscopic systems due to dissipation and decoherence. Quantum phenomena in large systems emerge only when particles are strongly correlated as in superconductors and superfluids. Cooperative interaction of correlated atoms with electromagnetic fields leads to superradiance, the enhanced quantum radiation phenomenon, exhibiting novel physics such as quantum Dicke phase and ultranarrow linewidth for optical clocks. Recent researches to imprint atomic correlation directly demonstrated controllable collective atom-field interactions. Here, we report cavity-mediated coherent single-atom superradiance. Single atoms with predefined correlation traverse a high-Q cavity one by one, emitting photons cooperatively with the atoms already gone through the cavity. Such collective behavior of time-separated atoms is mediated by the long-lived cavity field. As a result, a coherent field is generated in the steady state, whose intensity varies as the square of the number of traversing atoms during the cavity decay time, exhibiting more than ten-fold enhancement from noncollective cases. The correlation among single atoms is prepared with the aligned atomic phase achieved by nanometer-precision position control of atoms with a nanohole-array aperture. The present work deepens our understanding of the collective matter-light interaction and provides an advanced platform for phase-controlled atom-field interactions.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09136
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