Observation of dressed states of distant atoms with delocalized photons in coupled-cavities quantum electrodynamics

Shinya Kato, Nikolett Német, Kohei Senga, Shota Mizukami, Xinhe Huang, Scott Parkins and Takao Aoki ()
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Shinya Kato: Waseda University
Nikolett Német: The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies
Kohei Senga: Waseda University
Shota Mizukami: Waseda University
Xinhe Huang: Waseda University
Scott Parkins: The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies
Takao Aoki: Waseda University

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract In a cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) system, where atoms coherently interact with photons in a cavity, the eigenstates of the system are the superposition states of atoms and cavity photons, the so-called dressed states of atoms. When two cavities are connected by an optical fiber with negligible loss, the coherent coupling between the cavities gives rise to photonic normal modes. One of these normal modes is the fiber-dark mode, in which photons are delocalized in the two distant cavities. Here we demonstrate the setting of coupled-cavities QED, where two nanofiber cavity-QED systems are coherently connected by a meter-long low-loss channel in an all-fiber fashion. Specifically, we observe dressed states of distant atoms with delocalized photons of the fiber-dark normal mode. Our system will provide a platform for the study of delocalized atomic and photonic states, photonic many-body physics, and distributed quantum computation.

Date: 2019
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