Dark-state polaritons in electromagnetically induced transparency

By Michael Fleischhauer, Mikhail D. Lukin. Physical Review Letters, 2000

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We identify form-stable coupled excitations of light and matter ("dark-state polaritons") associated with the propagation of quantum fields in electromagnetically induced transparency. The properties of dark-state polaritons such as the group velocity are determined by the mixing angle between light and matter components and can be controlled by an external coherent field as the pulse propagates. In particular, light pulses can be decelerated and "trapped" in which case their shape and quantum state are mapped onto metastable collective states of matter. Possible applications of this reversible coherent-control technique are discussed.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Quantum information with Rydberg atoms (2009, background): “The atomic three-level transition transforms each photon wave packet into a polariton (Fleischhauer and Lukin, 2000), i.”
Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency (2001, background): “The two form a combined excitation of photons and spins called a dark-state polarito”
Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses (2001, background): “Similar effects have been predicted in a recent theoretical pape”
Quantum spin squeezing (2010, background): “Within this category, a very natural idea is to transfer squeezing from light to atoms [3, 16, 21, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62], and many proposals focused on transferring squeezing via electromagnetically induced transparency [63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72].”
Colloquium: Strongly interacting photons in one-dimensional continuum (2016, background): “It is therefore instructive to 18 view each propagating photon as a slow light-matter polariton (Fleischhauer and Lukin, 2000).”
Quantum metrology with nonclassical states of atomic ensembles (2016, methodology): “An alternative approach, mapping a quantum state of light onto an atomic state via electromagnetically induced transparency has been proposed by Fleischhauer and Lukin (2000), see also Liu et al. (2001) and Phillips et al. (2001).”
Colloquium: Trapping and manipulating photon states in atomic ensembles (2003, background): “This quasiparticle, called a dark-state polariton (Fleischhauer and Lukin, 2000), is a combined excitation of photons and spins.”
A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons (2007, background): “The “impedance-matching” condition and the need to split a pulse for optimal storage, for example, can be relaxed using a small ensemble of emitters and photon storage techniques based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) [33].”
Four-wave-mixing stopped light in hot atomic rubidium vapour (2009, background): “As has been pointed out by Fleischhauer and Lukin in their seminal work on dark-state polariton”
Strongly interacting polaritons in coupled arrays of cavities (2006, background): “To this end, the polaritons are made purely atomic excitations by adiabatically switching off the driving lase”
Crystallization of strongly interacting photons in a nonlinear optical fibre (2007, methodology): “while the usual Langevin-Bloch equations describing evolution of σij can be derived following the methods of [20, 21, 31].”