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Main Authors: Ma, Hanzhen, Yelin, Susanne F.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01865
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author Ma, Hanzhen
Yelin, Susanne F.
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Yelin, Susanne F.
contents Finding a comprehensive and general description of the collective Lamb shift and cooperative broadening in a radiatively interacting system is a long-standing open question. Both energy levels and linewidth of individual atoms are modified by the exchange of real and virtual photons making up the dipole-dipole interaction. We introduce a method to theoretically study weakly-driven, low-excited ensembles of two-level atoms, and obtain an analytic description of the collective Lamb shift and linewidth via a self-consistent formalism including infinite order of correlations which stem from only two-body interactions. We predict the dependency of these quantities, as measurables, on system parameters: the number density of the ensemble, the detuning of an external probe field, and the geometry of the sample.
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spellingShingle Collective Lamb Shift and Modified Linewidth of An Interacting Atomic Gas
Ma, Hanzhen
Yelin, Susanne F.
Quantum Physics
Finding a comprehensive and general description of the collective Lamb shift and cooperative broadening in a radiatively interacting system is a long-standing open question. Both energy levels and linewidth of individual atoms are modified by the exchange of real and virtual photons making up the dipole-dipole interaction. We introduce a method to theoretically study weakly-driven, low-excited ensembles of two-level atoms, and obtain an analytic description of the collective Lamb shift and linewidth via a self-consistent formalism including infinite order of correlations which stem from only two-body interactions. We predict the dependency of these quantities, as measurables, on system parameters: the number density of the ensemble, the detuning of an external probe field, and the geometry of the sample.
title Collective Lamb Shift and Modified Linewidth of An Interacting Atomic Gas
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01865