Destabilization of dark states and optical spectroscopy in Zeeman-degenerate atomic systems

By Dana Joy Berkeland, M. Boshier. 2001

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We present a general discussion of the techniques of destabilizing dark states in laser-driven atoms with either a magnetic field or modulated laser polarization. We show that the photon-scattering rate is maximized at a particular evolution rate of the dark state. We also find that the atomic-resonance curve is significantly broadened when the evolution rate is far from this optimum value. These results are illustrated with detailed examples of destabilizing dark states in some commonly trapped ions and supported by insights derived from numerical calculations and simple theoretical models.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Citations in the corpus

• Entanglement of single-atom quantum bits at a distance (2007, unknown): “This magnetic field also suppresses coherent dark state trapping in the 2 S 1/2 levels during Doppler cooling and atomic state detection 22 .”