Description

Atom-photon interfaces will be one of the core building blocks in many physical implementations of quantum information protocols. While photons are ideal carriers for transporting quantum information over long distances, atoms can be used to store and process informationa.

A very clean implementation of quantum information storage uses the internal degrees of freedom of single, isolated atoms. By localizing a single atom in free space using an optical dipole trap, and coupling it to external light fields using a high numerical aperture optics, we investigate single atom-single photon interactions, which are important for a basic understanding of the underlying physical processes of quantum interfaces. More...

CQT members involved in the project

Tey Meng Khoon, Syed Abdullah Aljunid, Brenda Chng, Gleb Maslennikov, Christian Kurtsiefer

Publications

M.K. Tey, Z. Chen, S.A. Aljunid, B. Chng, F. Huber, G. Maslennikov, C. Kurtsiefer: Strong interaction between light and a single trapped atom without a cavity, arXiv:0802.3005