Trapped atoms and superradiance on an integrated nanophotonic microring circuit

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Autori principali: Zhou, Xinchao, Tamura, Hikaru, Chang, Tzu-Han, Hung, Chen-Lung
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Zhou, Xinchao
Tamura, Hikaru
Chang, Tzu-Han
Hung, Chen-Lung
author_facet Zhou, Xinchao
Tamura, Hikaru
Chang, Tzu-Han
Hung, Chen-Lung
contents Interfacing cold atoms with integrated nanophotonic devices could offer new paradigms for engineering atom-light interactions and provide a potentially scalable route for quantum sensing, metrology, and quantum information processing. However, it remains a challenging task to efficiently trap a large ensemble of cold atoms on an integrated nanophotonic circuit. Here, we demonstrate direct loading of an ensemble of up to 70 atoms into an optical microtrap on a nanophotonic microring circuit. Efficient trap loading is achieved by employing degenerate Raman-sideband cooling in the microtrap, where a built-in spin-motion coupling arises directly from the vector light shift of the evanescent field potential on a microring. Atoms are cooled into the trap via optical pumping with a single free space beam. We have achieved a trap lifetime approaching 700ms under continuous cooling. We show that the trapped atoms display large cooperative coupling and superradiant decay into a whispering-gallery mode of the microring resonator, holding promise for explorations of new collective effects. Our technique can be extended to trapping a large ensemble of cold atoms on nanophotonic circuits for various quantum applications.
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spellingShingle Trapped atoms and superradiance on an integrated nanophotonic microring circuit
Zhou, Xinchao
Tamura, Hikaru
Chang, Tzu-Han
Hung, Chen-Lung
Quantum Physics
Atomic Physics
Interfacing cold atoms with integrated nanophotonic devices could offer new paradigms for engineering atom-light interactions and provide a potentially scalable route for quantum sensing, metrology, and quantum information processing. However, it remains a challenging task to efficiently trap a large ensemble of cold atoms on an integrated nanophotonic circuit. Here, we demonstrate direct loading of an ensemble of up to 70 atoms into an optical microtrap on a nanophotonic microring circuit. Efficient trap loading is achieved by employing degenerate Raman-sideband cooling in the microtrap, where a built-in spin-motion coupling arises directly from the vector light shift of the evanescent field potential on a microring. Atoms are cooled into the trap via optical pumping with a single free space beam. We have achieved a trap lifetime approaching 700ms under continuous cooling. We show that the trapped atoms display large cooperative coupling and superradiant decay into a whispering-gallery mode of the microring resonator, holding promise for explorations of new collective effects. Our technique can be extended to trapping a large ensemble of cold atoms on nanophotonic circuits for various quantum applications.
title Trapped atoms and superradiance on an integrated nanophotonic microring circuit
topic Quantum Physics
Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14318