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Vladan Vuletić.
Mazurenko, Anton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
2013-04-12T19:32:01Z
2013-04-12T19:32:01Z
2012
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78519
837286839
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2012.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111).
We present an experiment exploring electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in Rydberg atoms in order to observe optical nonlinearities at the single photon level. ⁸⁷Rb atoms are trapped and cooled using a magneto-optical trap (MOT) and a far off resonance dipole trap (FORT). Once the system is prepared, a ladder EIT scheme with Rydberg atoms is used to map the photon field onto the ensemble. The powerful dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms allows the system to exhibit many-body quantum mechanical effects. We also describe an imaging method to observe the Rydberg blockade. Last of all, we present a preliminary measurement of EIT in a Rydberg system. In this measurement, the transmission shows sensitivity to the applied photon flux, and exhibits temporal correlations in the photons exiting the EIT medium.
by Anton Mazurenko.
S.B.
111 p.
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