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Dynamical beats of short pulses in waveguide QED

Dianqiang Su1,2, Yuan Jiang1,2, Silvia Cardenas-Lopez3, Ana Asenjo-Garcia3, Pablo Solano4,5, Luis A. Orozco6, and Yanting Zhao1,2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People's Republic of China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, People's Republic of China
  • 3Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
  • 4Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
  • 5Departamento de Física, Azrieli Global Scholars Program, CIFAR, Toronto, Canada
  • 6Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics and NIST, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA

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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L042041 – Published 18 December, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.L042041

Abstract

We study weak pulse propagation through near-resonant collective media. The timescales of the pulse and the lifetime of the media are comparable. The transmitted pulse develops temporal oscillations, known as dynamical beats. We use a collection of Cs133 atoms randomly captured by a nanofiber-based optical lattice. An effective macroscopic model derived from a microscopic many-atom input-output theory reproduces the observations. The results deepen our understanding of single-photon pulse propagation, crucial for many waveguide QED-based quantum information protocols.

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Phys. Rev. Research 5, L042041– Published 18 December, 2023
  • Received 21 April 2023
  • Accepted 29 September 2023
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