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Large ion Coulomb crystals: A near-ideal medium for coupling optical cavity modes to matter

Source: Phys. Rev. A 80, 041802(R) (2009); doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041802

Published 7 October 2009

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Keywords
PACS
  • 42.50.Pq
    Cavity quantum electrodynamics; micromasers
  • 37.30.+i
    Atoms, molecules and ions in cavities
  • 42.50.Ct
    Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments
  • YEAR: 2009
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A. Dantan, M. Albert, J. P. Marler, P. F. Herskind, and M. Drewsen
QUANTOP, Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Århus C., Denmark
We present an investigation of the coherent coupling of various transverse field modes of an optical cavity to ion Coulomb crystals. The obtained experimental results, which include the demonstration of identical collective coupling rates for different transverse modes of a cavity field to ions in the same large Coulomb crystal, are in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions. The results furthermore suggest that Coulomb crystals in the future may serve as near-ideal media for high-fidelity multimode quantum information processing and communication purposes, including the generation and storage of single-photon qubits encoded in different transverse modes. ©2009 The American Physical Society
History: Received 25 May 2009; published 7 October 2009
Permalink: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v80/e041802

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