腔内单原子的激光冷却、囚禁与操控实验及其最新进展

本文综述了腔内单原子的激光冷却、囚禁与操控的基本原理、实验方案和结果及其最新进展,并介绍了腔内单原子激光操控实验的最新进展及其在腔内量子电动力学(腔内QED)效应、亚泊松光子统计、单原子激光、量子态制备、单光子源和量子信息处理等研究中的应用。     

腔内单原子的激光冷却、囚禁与操控实验及其最新进展

本文综述了腔内单原子的激光冷却、囚禁与操控的基本原理、实验方案和结果及其最新进展,并介绍了腔内单原子激光操控实验的最新进展及其在腔内量子电动力学(腔内QED)效应、亚泊松光子统计、单原子激光、量子态制备、单光子源和量子信息处理等研究中的应用。     

腔内单原子光学研究的实验进展及其应用

文章综述了腔内单原子光学的实验研究及其最新进展，主要介绍了腔内单原子的激光冷却与囚禁的最新实验结果及其在单光子源、单原子激光和量子信息处理等研究中的应用．     

超冷单原子分子阵列

用光镊形成光阱囚禁单个原子、用激光将单个原子冷却到基态形成超冷原子、将超冷原子相干合成单个超冷分子、将单原子分子重排串成丰富多样的超冷单原子分子阵列,这就构成了精密相干可控的多粒子量子系统,为多种前沿科学研究与技术发展提供难得的量子平台.文章介绍近年来在单原子量子态高保真操控、异核原子量子纠缠、原子一分子耦合态相干控制...     

微波驱动双模四能级单原子中连续变量纠缠的制备

通过两个经典微波场驱动相应的原子精细跃迁诱导产生原子相干, 研究在双模单原子激光器中连续变量量子纠缠的制备和演化. 研究结果表明: 微波场强度可以有效地控制腔场纠缠特性; 通过调节相应的频率失谐, 能够同步增加腔场总的平均光子数、腔模间的纠缠时间和强度. 关键词： 四能级单原子 原子相干 连续变量纠缠     

单原子在两个远红失谐光偶极阱中的转移

在光偶极阱中实现单个中性原子的囚禁及其操控在量子信息处理中具有重要的应用.为此在使用强聚焦远红失谐激光形成的光偶极阱囚禁单个中性铷原子后,通过一个空间可移动的光偶极阱从静止的光偶极阱上掠过,实现了将静止的光偶极阱中的单原子以94%的概率转移到可移动的光偶极阱中,并将该原子移动到焦平面上指定的位置.该实验对于实现光偶极阱阵列中任意两个原子的纠缠以及光偶极阱中原子外在自由度的操控等研究有着潜在的应用.     

强耦合腔量子电动力学中单原子转移的实验及模拟

对于强耦合腔量子电动力学系统中以自由下落方式转移原子与腔模强耦合作用过程进行了实验研究,并在理论上利用蒙特卡罗方法对整个实验过程进行了模拟.根据模拟的高精度光学微腔实时记录的原子穿腔信号,获得了原子与腔模相互作用以及冷原子的参数等基本信息,包括不同初始条件下原子与腔模相互作用时腔的透射谱、单个原子在腔内的驻留时间、原子到达腔模时刻的概率分布以及原子到达腔模的动能分布等,并作为对比给出了相应的实验结果.基于模拟结果,实验上建立了腔内光学偶极阱来俘获单个原子,测量的单原子的腔内俘获寿命达到5 ms,比自由穿越时延长了约30倍.该研究对于原子-腔受限空间内,以自由下落方式转移原子以及原子与腔的耦合过程给出详细的分析,有助于对类似实验结果的分析和系统参数的优化.     

超冷V型三能级原子注入的微脉塞的光谱性质

建立了超冷V型三能级原子注入的微脉塞的量子理论。首先推导出腔场约化密度算符随时间演化的主方程，并由此出发着重研究了微脉塞腔场的光谱性质。结果表明，与用超冷二能级原子或用热的二能级和三能级原子注入的微脉塞的光谱相比，用超冷V型三能级原子注入的微脉塞具有新的光谱性质，对某些腔长，线宽可被突然加宽，腔场也发生大的频移，不同的原子相干性甚至可以使腔场频率发生方向相反的频移。另一方面，原子质心动量对光谱也有影响，表现在线宽和频移随质心动量减小而减小。     

光学腔与原子强耦合的实验研究进展

光学腔与原子强耦合系统是量子物理研究的基本系统,不但具有重要的物理意义,而且为量子信息、量子计算和量子精密测量中关键技术的产生和关键器件的研发提供了理想系统。强耦合腔与原子相互作用实验从20世纪90年代开始发展,经过多年的研究,在单原子与光学腔强耦合和原子系综与光学腔的耦合研究方面取得了重大进展。随着多原子阵列量子操控技术的进步,可控的多原子阵列与光学微腔强耦合系统近年来成为腔量子电动力学的重要研究方向。然而,目前实现确定性可控的多原子阵列与腔的强耦合仍面临巨大的技术挑战,可控原子数还停留在两个。简要回顾了近年来光频区强耦合腔量子电动力学系统在上述方面的主要实验进展和相应的实验方案,并展望了未来的发展。     

单原子冷却及光学操控的实验进展

文章综述了基于原子冷却与俘获的单原子制备及其光学操控的基本实验原理及实验进展,并介绍了单原子制备及光学操控在量子寄存器、单光子源、原子-光子纠缠等方面的应用,简述了文章作者所在研究小组在单原子制备和光学操控方面的实验进展.     

Polarization properties of a one-atom maser under a step-wise two-photon pump

The theory of a one-atom maser, when the atoms enter the microresonator being excited to the upper maser level from its ground state by the bichromatic laser field resonant with the two adjacent optically allowed transitions with arbitrary angular momenta, is built. This theory is applied to the investigation of the polarization properties of a one-atom maser, i.e., the dependence of the maser field characteristics on the mutual orientations of the polarization vectors of the maser field mode and of the pump laser field. New experiments are proposed to study such polarization properties, which may be performed within the framework of the experimental setup used by Professor H. Walther and collaborators [1–3].     

Laser experiments with single atoms and the test of basic quantum phenomena

In this paper, recent experiments of our group performed with single atoms in cavities and traps are summarized. In the first part, experiments with the one-atom maser are described dealing with the generation of number states of the photon field. In the second part of the paper, the spectroscopy of a single trapped In⁺ ion is discussed being performed with the aim of realizing a new frequency standard in the optical range.     

Experiments with single atoms in cavities and traps

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通过绝热过程实现任意一原子态的隐形传态(英文)

我们利用腔场和激光相互作用,提出一个冗余的、对消相干不敏感的方案,来传输任意一个三能级原子的态.由于原子自发跃迁和腔延迟作用会造成信息丢失,通过用部分绝热过程和适当的原子场耦合的设计,信息丢失能够被有效的抑制,此方案传送成功的几率是0.5,保真度是1.     

Atom pairs in the micromaser

Although in standard micromaser experiments the collective events, in which two or more atoms are inside the resonator at one time, are very rare, they may cause dramatic effects nevertheless. We find in particular that the so-called “trapped vacuum state” (in which single atoms would undergo a complete Rabi cycle while traversing the cavity and emerge without having emitted a photon) is destroyed even when more than 99% of the atoms participate in one-atom events.     

Quantum properties of one-atom maser radiation in the presence of thermal photons

The effect of thermal photons on the radiative properties of a one-atom maser is investigated. Stationary Pand Qdistribution functions are determined analytically in the approximation of strong interaction between an atom and a cavity field mode. The generation conditions are found for a one-atom maser. It is shown that taking into account thermal photons leads to a decrease in the threshold value of incoherent pumping. It is demonstrated that generation may occur in the absence of population inversion in the atomic subsystem and when losses exceed the intensity of incoherent pumping. A formula is proposed for the Fano factor of a one-atom maser in the form of the sum of the Fano factors of the microcavity radiation in the absence of thermal photons and the thermal radiation.     

Phase probability density in subensembles of a quantum mode of a one-atom maser

The method of periodic trajectories is applied to the analysis of the phase states of a one-atom maser mode, information on which can be obtained from a series of consequent indirect phase-sensitive quantum measurements of atoms leaving the cavity. Such information allows one to study in detail the evolution of a maser mode in a stationary state. The evolution pattern is represented as a random sequence of subensembles in which the mode exists during different time intervals. An approximate stochastic recurrence relation is obtained, which allows us, using the Monte Carlo method, to generate a sequence of relative frequencies of detection of the states of a chosen basis in escaping atoms. Formulas for the phase probability density for subensembles of the mode are derived. These formulas are obtained using as initial data the average relative frequencies measured by an experimenter in a region of a stable trajectory.     

Coupled-channel cavity QED model and Semi-classical solution

A semi-classical scheme is presented to solve the coupled-channel cavity QED (CQED) model. Such model exhibits remarkable characteristics as shown by numerical calculations. A relation between the swing or angular velocity of the detuning and the motion of the atoms is discussed. With the augmentation of the optical field intensity or frequency, the atoms are trapped firstly and then they move stochastically and finally chaos sets in.     

Quantum information processing with atoms and cavities

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) experiments realize the simplest matter–field system: a single atom coupled to a single field mode containing only a few photons. On the one hand, these experiments can be used to test fundamental features of the quantum world. On the other hand, they implement elementary quantum logic components: qubits and quantum gates. We present here a review of the CQED experiments performed at Ecole Normale Supérieure with circular Rydberg atoms and superconducting millimeter-wave cavities.