Two-photon gateway in one-atom cavity quantum electrodynamics

@article{citeulike:3575022, abstract = {Single atoms absorb and emit light from a resonant laser beam photon by photon. We show that a single atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity can absorb and emit resonant photons in pairs. The effect is observed in a photon correlation experiment on the light transmitted through the cavity. We find that the atom-cavity system transforms a random stream of input photons into a correlated stream of output photons, thereby acting as a two-photon gateway. The phenomenon has its origin in the quantum anharmonicity of the energy structure of the atom-cavity system. Future applications could include the controlled interaction of two photons by means of one atom.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Kubanek, A. and Ourjoumtsev, A. and Schuster, I. and Koch, M. and Pinkse, P. W. H. and Murr, K. and Rempe, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {3575022}, eprint = {0811.0264}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2008-11-18 17:25:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Two-photon gateway in one-atom cavity quantum electrodynamics}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0264}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3575022 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3575022 N2 - Single atoms absorb and emit light from a resonant laser beam photon by photon. We show that a single atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity can absorb and emit resonant photons in pairs. The effect is observed in a photon correlation experiment on the light transmitted through the cavity. We find that the atom-cavity system transforms a random stream of input photons into a correlated stream of output photons, thereby acting as a two-photon gateway. The phenomenon has its origin in the quantum anharmonicity of the energy structure of the atom-cavity system. Future applications could include the controlled interaction of two photons by means of one atom. TI - Two-photon gateway in one-atom cavity quantum electrodynamics AU - Kubanek, A AU - Ourjoumtsev, A AU - Schuster, I AU - Koch, M AU - Pinkse, PWH AU - Murr, K AU - Rempe, G PY - 2008/Nov/03/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0264 ER -