Super-radiant and Sub-radiant Cavity Scattering by Atom Arrays
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| author | Yan, Zhenjie Ho, Jacquelyn Lu, Yue-Hui Masson, Stuart J. Asenjo-Garcia, Ana Stamper-Kurn, Dan M. |
| author_facet | Yan, Zhenjie Ho, Jacquelyn Lu, Yue-Hui Masson, Stuart J. Asenjo-Garcia, Ana Stamper-Kurn, Dan M. |
| contents | We realize collective enhancement and suppression of light scattered by an array of tweezer-trapped $^{87}$Rb atoms positioned within a strongly coupled Fabry-Pérot optical cavity. We illuminate the array with light directed transverse to the cavity axis, in the low saturation regime, and detect photons scattered into the cavity. For an array with integer-optical-wavelength spacing each atom scatters light into the cavity with nearly identical scattering amplitude, leading to an observed $N^2$ scaling of cavity photon number as the atom number increases stepwise from $N=1$ to $N=8$. By contrast, for an array with half-integer-wavelength spacing, destructive interference of scattering amplitudes yields a non-monotonic, sub-radiant cavity intensity versus $N$. By analyzing the polarization of light emitted from the cavity, we find that Rayleigh scattering can be collectively enhanced or suppressed with respect to Raman scattering. We observe also that atom-induced shifts and broadenings of the cavity resonance are precisely tuned by varying the atom number and positions. Altogether, tweezer arrays provide exquisite control of atomic cavity QED spanning from the single- to the many-body regime. |
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| spellingShingle | Super-radiant and Sub-radiant Cavity Scattering by Atom Arrays Yan, Zhenjie Ho, Jacquelyn Lu, Yue-Hui Masson, Stuart J. Asenjo-Garcia, Ana Stamper-Kurn, Dan M. Quantum Physics Quantum Gases Atomic Physics We realize collective enhancement and suppression of light scattered by an array of tweezer-trapped $^{87}$Rb atoms positioned within a strongly coupled Fabry-Pérot optical cavity. We illuminate the array with light directed transverse to the cavity axis, in the low saturation regime, and detect photons scattered into the cavity. For an array with integer-optical-wavelength spacing each atom scatters light into the cavity with nearly identical scattering amplitude, leading to an observed $N^2$ scaling of cavity photon number as the atom number increases stepwise from $N=1$ to $N=8$. By contrast, for an array with half-integer-wavelength spacing, destructive interference of scattering amplitudes yields a non-monotonic, sub-radiant cavity intensity versus $N$. By analyzing the polarization of light emitted from the cavity, we find that Rayleigh scattering can be collectively enhanced or suppressed with respect to Raman scattering. We observe also that atom-induced shifts and broadenings of the cavity resonance are precisely tuned by varying the atom number and positions. Altogether, tweezer arrays provide exquisite control of atomic cavity QED spanning from the single- to the many-body regime. |
| title | Super-radiant and Sub-radiant Cavity Scattering by Atom Arrays |
| topic | Quantum Physics Quantum Gases Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13321 |