Magnon Blockade and Magnon–Atom Entanglement Induced by a Qutrit Coupled to a Ferromagnetic YIG Sphere

Hybridized magnonic–photonic systems promise novel applications for future information processing technologies. Here, a hybrid magnonic system comprising of a qutrit (Λ-type three-level atom) and a ferromagnetic YIG sphere is considered. Indeed, the whole system is driven by two light fields under the influence of the thermal environment. The indirect magnon–atom interaction is established via the virtual photon exchange. The associated Lindblad master equation is derived and its solution is found to investigate the nonclassical feature, especially in the steady-state solution. Generally, the system shows considerable nonclassicality, that is, strong magnon antibunching and magnon blockade. In fact, the feasibility of using such a hybrid system to prepare a single-magnon source based on magnon blockade effects we theoretically demonstrated. Besides, the considered system may be exploited to generate robust and stable magnon–atom entanglement. The appearance of magnon blockade and magnon–atom entanglement in the Λ-type atom may have its origin in the fact that the atom is trapped in different superposition states, induced by the quantum interference phenomenon. The proposed model and the corresponding results may open up an intriguing prospect to prepare a single-magnon source and provide further benefits through concatenating with photons in optomagnonic systems.     

分析原子干涉仪的矩阵方法

从原子波包所满足的薛定谔方程出发,从理论上巧妙地推导出了原子干涉仪在重力的影响下所产生的相位差与重力加速度的关系表达式。提出了一种3×3阶的矩阵方法,以此来分析多个元件情况下原子干涉仪中的相位差,可以大大简化计算。利用这种方法不但能得到原子束在重力的影响下在自由空间中的传输矩阵,也可以得到原子束与π/2和π脉冲的相互作用矩阵。作为例子,用3×3阶矩阵方法计算了三脉冲原子干涉仪中的相位差,得出的结果与Wolf等对经典轨迹进行拉格朗日积分所得出的结果完全相符。进一步分析了五脉冲的原子干涉仪中的相位差,以说明3×3阶矩阵方法的简便性。     

冷原子干涉陀螺仪发展综述

从冷原子高精度测量的原理出发,分析了原子陀螺仪相比传统陀螺仪的优势和异同。随后介绍了国外研究机构在原子惯导领域的最新研究进展。最后结合原子陀螺仪所具有的重力敏感特性,探讨了原子陀螺仪在高精度惯性导航领域中的应用。     

原子漏斗及其应用

文章简单介绍了磁、光原子漏斗的基本原理，详细综述了各种原子漏斗方案及其实验结果．这些漏斗方案主要包括采用红失谐高斯光束、蓝失谐消逝波光场和空心光束串联而成的光学原子漏斗，采用载流导线的静磁原子漏斗以及采用磁光凝胶构成的磁光原子漏斗．文章最后还简单介绍了原子漏斗在原子光学领域中的潜在应用．     

Atomic Coherent Trapping and Properties of Trapped Atom

Based on the theory of velocity-selective coherent population trapping, we investigate an atom-laser system where a pair of counterpropagating laser fields interact with a three-level atom. The influence of the parametric condition on the properties of the system such as velocity at which the atom is selected to be trapped, time needed for finishing the coherent trapping process, and possible electromagnetically induced transparency of an altrocold atomic medium, etc., is studied.     

Atomic Coherent Trapping and Properties of Trapped Atom

Based on the theory of velocity-selective coherent population trapping, we investigate an atom-laser system where a pair of counterpropagating laser fields interact with a three-level atom. The influence of the parametric condition on the properties of the system such as velocity at which the atom is selected to be trapped, time needed for finishing the coherent trapping process, and possible electromagnetically induced transparency of an altrocold atomic medium,etc., is studied.     

Atom Microscopy via Dual Resonant Superposition

An M-type Rb⁸⁷ atomic system is proposed for one-dimensional atom microscopy under the condition of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Super-localization of the atom in the absorption spectrum while its delocalization in the dispersion spectrum is observed due to the dual superposition effect of the resonant fields. The observed minimum uncertainty peaks will find important applications in Laser cooling, creating focused atom beams, atom nanolithography, and in measurement of the center-of-mass wave function of moving atoms.     

原子干涉陀螺仪关键技术与研究进展

从使用需求出发,简单介绍了不同种类陀螺在惯性导航领域可能的发展趋势。从原理上比较原子干涉与光学干涉的异同,阐明了原子干涉高精度测量的优势,并预测原子干涉陀螺仪是下一代超高精度陀螺仪的发展方向。最后对原子陀螺的组成进行了描述,介绍了国际上原子陀螺工程化样机研制的最新进展。     

原子光学讲座第一讲几何与波动原子光学及其器件

文章首先简单介绍了冷原子操纵与控制的基本原理。然后，重点介绍了几何与波动原子光学及其器件的研究内容、潜在应用和最新进展，其中包括：原子束的反射和原子反射镜；原子束偏转（折射）、聚焦成像和原子透镜；原子衍射和原子光栅；原子干涉和原子干涉仪；原子全息学及其技术等。     

Superposition of Stationary Wave Fields Via Atom Microscopy

We investigate one-dimensional position microscopy of a three-level atom moving through a stationary wave region under the condition of electromagnetically induced transparency.The precise position information of an atom is observed on the resonance absorption and dispersion distribution spectrum of a weak probe field.Single and multiple localization peaks are observed in specific directions of the corresponding wave numbers and phase of the standing wave fields.The strength of space-independent Rabi frequency reduces the position uncertainty in the localized peaks without disturbing the probability of the atom.In a hot atomic medium the localized probability of an atom is reduced which depends upon the temperature of that medium.Our results provide useful applications in the development of laser cooling,atom nanolithography and Bose-Einstein condensation.     

A Condition for Entropy Exchange Between Atom and Field

We study the entropy correlations between subsystems in a bipartite system.Our results show that there is an entropy exchange effect(i.e.,anticorrelation phenomenon) between atom and field.Especially we prove that there exists a condition for complete entropy exchange between atom and field.     

Two-level Atom in an Electromagnetic Wave of Circle Polarization

We study a two-level atom interacting with an electromagnetic wave of circle polarization, and work out the wave functions, the energy values and momentum values of the atom. PACS: 32.80.-t, 03.65.Ge     

Controllable Persistent Atom Current of Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice Ring

In this paper the macroscopic quantum state of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices is studied by solving the periodic Gross-Pitaevskii equation in one-dimensional geometry. It is shown that an exact solution seen to be a travelling wave of excited macroscopic quantum states resultes in a persistent atom current, which can be controlled by adjusting of the barrier height of the optical periodic potential. A critical condition to generate the travelling wave is demonstrated and we moreover propose a practical experiment to realize the persistent atom current in a toroidal atom waveguide.     

Two-Level Atom in a Standing, Electromagnetic Wave

We study a two-level atom interacting with a standing electromagnetic wave, and work out the wave functions, the energy values and the momentum values of the atom.     

Generalized Two-State Theory for an Atom Laser with Nonlinear Couplings

We present a generalized two-state theory to investigate the quantum dynamics and statistics of an atom laser with nonlinear couplings. The rotating wave approximate Hamiltonian of the system is proved to be analytically solvable. The fraction of output atoms is then showed to exhibit an interesting collapse and revival phenomenon with respect to the evolution time, a sign of nonlinear couplings. Several nonclassical effects, such as sub-Poissonian distribution, quadrature squeezing effects, second-order cross-correlation and accompanied violation of Cauchy-Schwartz inequality are also revealed for the output matter wave. The initial global phase of the trapped condensate, in weak nonlinear coupling limits, is found to exert an interesting impact on the quantum statistical properties of the propagating atom laser beam.     

Properties of Coherent State for Hydrogen Atom

We construct the coherent state for the two-dimensional hydrogen atom, for which the averaged motion ofposition describes a Kepler ellipse. The coherent state can be expanded with respect to the eigenstates of 2D hydrogenatom, from which we evaluate the binding energy of the wave packet for this state.     

A Study of Confined Helium Atom

The helium atom confined by a spherical parabolic potential well is studied employing the adiabatic hyperspherical approach method. Total energies of the ground and three low-excited states are obtained as a function of the confined potential radii. We find that the energies of a spherical parabolic potential well are in good agreement with those of an impenetrable spherical box for the larger confined potential radius. We find also that the confinement may cause accidental degeneracies between levels with different low-excited states and the inversion of the energy values. The results for the three-dimensional spherical potential well and the two-dimensional disc-like potential well are compared with each other. We find that the energy difference between states in a two-dimensional parabolic potential is also obviously larger than the corresponding levels for a spherical parabolic potential.     

A Study of Confined Helium Atom

The helium atom confined by a spherical parabolic potential well is studied employing the adiabatic hyperspherical approach method. Total energies of the ground and three low-excited states are obtained as a function of the confined potential radii. We find that the energies of a spherical parabolic potential well are in good agreement with those of an impenetrable spherical box for the larger confined potential radius. We find also that the confinement may cause accidental degeneracies between levels with different low-excited states and the inversion of the energy values. The results for the three-dimensional spherical potential well and the two-dimensional disc-like potential well are compared with each other. We find that the energy difference between states in a two-dimensional parabolic potential is also obviously larger than the corresponding levels for a spherical parabolic potential.     

Generalized Two-State Theory for an Atom Laser with Nonlinear Couplings

We present a generalized two-state theory to investigate the quantum dynamics and statistics of an atom laser with nonlinear couplings. The rotating wave approximate Hamiltonian of the system is proved to be analytically solvable. The fraction of output atoms is then showed to exhibit an interesting collapse and revival phenomenon with respect to the evolution time, a sign of nonlinear couplings. Several nonclassical effects, such as sub-Poissonian distribution, quadrature squeezing effects, second-order cross-correlation and accompanied violation of Cauchy-Schwartz inequality are also revealed for the output matter wave. The initial global phase of the trapped condensate, in weak nonlinear coupling limits, is found to exert an interesting impact on the quantum statistical properties of the propagating atom laser beam.     

Spatial Dark Solitons in an Atom Laser Beam

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