Nonclassical Light from Large Ensembles of Trapped Ions
| Autor: | Adam Lešundák, Vaclav Hucl, Radim Filip, Jan Hrabina, Ondřej Číp, Lukáš Lachman, Petr Obšil, Martin Čížek, L. Slodička, Tuan Pham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Physics
Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases Range (particle radiation) Quantum Physics Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) FOS: Physical sciences General Physics and Astronomy 01 natural sciences Electromagnetic radiation 010305 fluids & plasmas Ion Physics - Atomic Physics Orders of magnitude (time) 0103 physical sciences Level structure Nonclassical light Atomic physics Quantum Physics (quant-ph) 010306 general physics Scaling Common emitter |
| Zdroj: | Physical review letters. 120(25) |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| Popis: | The vast majority of physical objects we are dealing with are almost exclusively made of atoms. Because of their discrete level structure, single atoms have proved to be emitters of light, which is incompatible with the classical description of electromagnetic waves. We demonstrate this incompatibility for atomic fluorescence when scaling up the size of the source ensemble, which consists of trapped atomic ions, by several orders of magnitude. The presented measurements of nonclassical statistics on light unconditionally emitted from ensembles containing up to more than a thousand ions promise further scalability to much larger emitter numbers. The methodology can be applied to a broad range of experimental platforms focusing on the bare nonclassical character of single isolated emitters. |
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