Attractive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium

Ofer Firstenberg, Thibault Peyronel, Qi-Yu Liang, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Mikhail D. Lukin () and Vladan Vuletić ()
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Ofer Firstenberg: Harvard University
Thibault Peyronel: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Qi-Yu Liang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexey V. Gorshkov: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology
Mikhail D. Lukin: Harvard University
Vladan Vuletić: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 2013, vol. 502, issue 7469, 71-75

Abstract: By coupling light to strongly interacting atomic Rydberg states in a dispersive regime, it is possible to induce individual photons to travel as massive particles with strong mutual attraction, such that the propagation of photon pairs is dominated by a two-photon bound state.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1038/nature12512

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