Sensitivity of electromagnetically induced transparency to light-mediated interactions

Autor(es)

Oliveira, M. H. ^[1] ; Maximo, C. E. ^{[1, 2]} ; Villas-Boas, C. J. ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Fis, POB 676, BR-13565905 Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil

^[2] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Phys, CH-8093 Zurich - Switzerland

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Physical Review A; v. 104, n. 6 DEC 8 2021.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

Here we present a microscopic model that describes the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) phenomenon in the multiple-scattering regime. We consider an ensemble of cold three-level atoms, in a A configuration, scattering a probe and a control field to the vacuum modes of the electromagnetic field. By first considering a scalar description of the scattering, we show that the light-mediated long-range interactions that emerge between the dipoles narrow the EIT transparency window for increasing densities and sample sizes. For a vectorial description, we demonstrate that near-field interacting terms can critically affect the atomic population transfer in the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). This result points out that standard STIRAP-based quantum memories in cold-atomic ensembles would not reach high enough efficiencies for quantum information processing applications even in dilute regimes. (AU)

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