Electromagnetically-induced-transparency-related phenomena and their mechanical analogs

Autor(es)

Souza, J. A. ^{[1, 2]} ; Cabral, L. ^[1] ; Oliveira, R. R. ^[1] ; Villas-Boas, C. J. ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Fis, BR-13565905 Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[2] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Fis Quim & Matemat, BR-18052780 Sao Paulo - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Physical Review A; v. 92, n. 2 AUG 11 2015.
• Citações Web of Science: 16

Resumo

Systems of interacting classical harmonic oscillators have received considerable attention in the past years as analog models for describing electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and associated phenomena. We review these models and investigate their validity for a variety of physical systems using two and three coupled harmonic oscillators. From the simplest EIT-Lambda configuration and two coupled single cavity modes we show that each atomic dipole-allowed transition and a single cavity mode can be represented by a damped harmonic oscillator. Thus, we have established a one-to-one correspondence between the classical and quantum dynamical variables. We show the limiting conditions and the equivalent for the EIT dark state in the mechanical system. This correspondence is extended to other systems that present EIT-related phenomena. Examples of such systems are two-and three-level (cavity EIT) atoms interacting with a single mode of an optical cavity and four-level atoms in a inverted-Upsilon and tripod configurations. The established equivalence between the mechanical and the cavity EIT systems has been corroborated by experimental data. The analysis of the probe response of all these systems also brings to light a physical interpretation for the expectation value of the photon annihilation operator < a >. We show that it can be directly related to the electric susceptibility of systems, the composition of which includes a driven cavity-field mode. (AU)

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