Gorshkov Alexey V, Nath Rejish, Pohl Thomas
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Apr 12;110(15):153601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.153601. Epub 2013 Apr 9.
We develop a theoretical framework for the dissipative propagation of quantized light under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency in atomic media involving strongly interacting Rydberg states. The theory allows us to determine the peculiar spatiotemporal structure of the output of the recently demonstrated single-photon filter and the recently proposed single-photon subtractor, which, respectively, let through and absorb a single photon. In addition to being crucial for applications of these and other optical quantum devices, the theory opens the door to the study of exotic dissipative many-body dynamics of strongly interacting photons in nonlinear nonlocal media.
我们为涉及强相互作用里德堡态的原子介质中电磁诱导透明条件下的量子化光的耗散传播建立了一个理论框架。该理论使我们能够确定最近展示的单光子滤波器和最近提出的单光子减法器的输出的独特时空结构，它们分别让单个光子通过和吸收单个光子。除了对这些以及其他光学量子器件的应用至关重要外，该理论还为研究非线性非局部介质中强相互作用光子的奇异耗散多体动力学打开了大门。
