Time-resolved vacuum Rabi oscillations in a semiconductor quantum microcavity

Norris, T. B.; Rhee, June-Koo Kevin; Sung, Cy; Arakawa, Yasuhiko; Nishioka, M.; Weisbuch, C.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.50.14663

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“…As in other cavity QED systems based on atoms and microcavity excitons, vacuum Rabi splitting in the frequency domain can be directly observed as time-domain oscillations [23,26,28]. Experimentally, for an incident THz beam linearly polarized in the x direction, we measured the y-polarization component, E y , of the transmitted THz wave, in both positive (+B) and negative (−B) fields, and took the difference ∆E y = E y (+B)−E y (−B), to eliminate any background noise.…”

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Collective non-perturbative coupling of 2D electrons with high-quality-factor terahertz cavity photons

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Nonperturbative coupling of light with condensed matter in an optical cavity is expected to reveal a host of coherent many-body phenomena and states [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. In addition, strong coherent light-matter interaction in a solid-state environment is of great interest to emerging quantum-based technologies [8,9]. However, creating a system that combines a long electronic coherence time, a large dipole moment, and a high cavity quality (Q) factor has been a challenging goal [10][11][12][13]. Here, we report collective ultrastrong light-matter coupling in an ultrahigh-mobility two-dimensional electron gas in a high-Q terahertz photonic-crystal cavity in a quantizing magnetic field, demonstrating a cooperativity of ∼360. The splitting of cyclotron resonance (CR) into the lower and upper polariton branches exhibited a √ ne-dependence on the electron density (ne), a hallmark of collective vacuum Rabi splitting. Furthermore, a small but definite blue shift was observed for the polariton frequencies due to the normally negligible A 2 term in the light-matter interaction Hamiltonian. Finally, the high-Q cavity suppressed the superradiant decay of coherent CR, which resulted in an unprecedentedly narrow intrinsic CR linewidth of 5.6 GHz at 2 K. These results open up a variety of new possibilities to combine the traditional disciplines of many-body condensed matter physics and cavity-based quantum optics.PACS numbers: 78.67. De, 76.40.+b, 78.47.jh Strong resonant light-matter coupling in a cavity setting is an essential ingredient in fundamental cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) studies [14] as well as in cavity-QED-based quantum information processing [8,9]. In particular, a variety of solid-state cavity QED systems have recently been examined [15][16][17][18], not only for the purpose of developing scalable quantum technologies, but also for exploring novel many-body effects inherent to condensed matter. For example, collective √ N -fold enhancement of light-matter coupling in an N -body system [19], combined with colossal dipole moments available in solids, compared to traditional atomic systems, is promising for entering uncharted regimes of ultrastrong light-matter coupling. Nonintuitive quantum phenomena can occur in such regimes, including a "squeezed" vacuum state [1], the Dicke superradiant phase transition [2,3], the breakdown of the Purcell effect [4], and quantum vacuum radiation [5] induced by the dynamic Casimir effect [6,7].Specifically, in a cavity QED system, there are three rates that jointly characterize different light-matter coupling regimes: g, κ, and γ. The parameter g is the coupling constant, with 2g being the vacuum Rabi splitting between the two normal modes, the lower polariton (LP) and upper polariton (UP), of the coupled system. The parameter κ is the photon decay rate of the cavity; τ cav = κ −1 is the photon lifetime of the cavity, and the cavity Q = ω 0 τ cav at mode frequency ω 0 . The parameter γ is the nonresonant matter decay rate, which is usually the decoherence rate in ...

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“…This generic feature of Rabi oscillation is universally found in a vast variety of material systems ranging from simple atoms and molecules [6][7][8][9][10] to bulk semiconductors [11], quantum wells and dots [12][13][14][15], graphene [16], surface plasmons [17], superconducting interference devices [18,19], diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers [20], and Bose-Einstein condensates [21], etc. When a two-state atom interacts with a resonant (δ = 0) laser pulse, the dynamics of the excited state probability, which we may refer to as single-atom Rabi oscillation (SARO), is represented by…”

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Ultrafast laser-driven Rabi oscillations of a trapped atomic vapor

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We investigate Rabi oscillation of an atom ensemble in Gaussian spatial distribution. By using the ultrafast laser interaction with the cold atomic rubidium vapor spatially confined in a magnetooptical trap, the oscillatory behavior of the atom excitation is probed as a function of the laser pulse power. Theoretical model calculation predicts that the oscillation peaks of the ensemble-atom Rabi flopping fall on the simple Rabi oscillation curve of a single atom and the experimental result shows good agreement with the prediction. We also test the the three-pulse composite interaction Rx(π/2)Ry(π)Rx(π/2) to develop a robust method to achieve a higher fidelity population inversion of the atom ensemble.PACS numbers: 32.80. Qk, 32.80.Wr, 42.65.Re Rabi oscillation is a fundamental concept in physics with a significant pedigree first discovered in the context of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) [1][2][3] and later extended to atomic physics and quantum optics [4,5]. In the presence of an oscillatory driving field E(t) = A(t) cos(ωt), a two-state quantum system undergoes a cyclic change of Bloch vector ρ manifested by the precessionabout an effective torque Ω = (−µA(t)/2 , 0, δ), where µ is the transition dipole moment between the two energy states, A(t) is the field envelope, and δ is the frequency detuning under the slowly-varying envelope approximation [4]. This generic feature of Rabi oscillation is universally found in a vast variety of material systems ranging from simple atoms and molecules [6][7][8][9][10] When a two-state atom interacts with a resonant (δ = 0) laser pulse, the dynamics of the excited state probability, which we may refer to as single-atom Rabi oscillation (SARO), is represented bywhere Θ o is the pulse area defined by Θ o = µA(t)dt/ . Since the pulse area is subject to both the pulse duration and the electric-field envelope, Rabi oscillations of an ultra-short time scale can be implemented by ultrafast optical interaction at a strong-enough laser intensity regime. However, the spatial extent of the laser beam over the laser-atom interaction region inevitably causes spatial average effect that often leads to vanishing of the oscillatory behavior. To overcome this problem, homogenizing the spatial profile of laser beams [22,23] and * Electronic address: jwahn@kaist.ac.kr adapting chirped laser interaction [24] have been considered. This paper aims quantitative analysis of spatially averaged Rabi oscillation. For this, we use the atom ensemble localized in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) [25] interacted with ultrafast laser pulses. As a theoretical model to investigate the spatially inhomogeneous interaction, we consider a Gaussian laser beam propagating along z direction. The pulse area in Eq. (2) is then represented in the polar coordinate system aswhere r = x 2 + y 2 , w(z) is the beam waist at z, w o = w(0) is the minimal beam waist, Θ o is the maximal pulse area, and Θ z = w o Θ o /w(z). When we assume the atom density profile in the MOT is also a Gaussian, i.e., ρ(r, z) = ρ o e −(r 2 +z 2 ...

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“…There are several types of propagating modes; their classification and specific features will be discussed elsewhere [17]. For strong coupling, cγ n /ε 1/2 1 << Γ, the decay is no longer exponential [18] and one enters the cavity QED regime, [19,20,21,22,23]. .…”

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Bound modes in dielectric microcavities

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Lenstra

2003

Optics Communications

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*We demonstrate how exactly bound cavity modes can be realized in dielectric structures other than 3d photonic crystals. For a microcavity consisting of crossed anisotropic layers, we derive the cavity resonance frequencies, and spontaneous emission rates. For a dielectric structure with dissipative loss and central layer with gain, the β factor of direct spontaneous emission into a cavity mode and the laser threshold is calculated.

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Time-resolved vacuum Rabi oscillations in a semiconductor quantum microcavity

Cited by 206 publications

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Collective non-perturbative coupling of 2D electrons with high-quality-factor terahertz cavity photons

Collective non-perturbative coupling of 2D electrons with high-quality-factor terahertz cavity photons

Ultrafast laser-driven Rabi oscillations of a trapped atomic vapor

Bound modes in dielectric microcavities

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