Giant-Atom Effects on Population and Entanglement Dynamics of Rydberg Atoms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14713v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:32:04 GMT
• Title: Giant-Atom Effects on Population and Entanglement Dynamics of Rydberg Atoms
• Authors: Yao-Tong Chen, Lei Du, Yan Zhang, Lingzhen Guo, Jin-Hui Wu, M. Artoni, and G. C. La Rocca
• Abstract summary: Giant atoms are attracting interest as an emerging paradigm in the quantum optics of engineered waveguides. We propose to realize a synthetic giant atom working in the optical regime starting from a pair of interacting Rydberg atoms. Our findings may be relevant to quantum information processing, besides broadening the giant-atom waveguide physics with optically driven natural atoms.
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• Abstract: Giant atoms are attracting interest as an emerging paradigm in the quantum optics of engineered waveguides. Here we propose to realize a synthetic giant atom working in the optical regime starting from a pair of interacting Rydberg atoms driven by a coherent field and coupled to a photonic crystal waveguide. Giant-atom effects can be observed as a phase-dependent decay of the double Rydberg excitation during the initial evolution of this atomic pair while (internal) atomic entanglement is exhibited at later times. Such an intriguing entanglement onset occurs in the presence of intrinsic atomic decay toward non-guided vacuum modes and is accompanied by an anti-bunching correlation of the emitted photons. Our findings may be relevant to quantum information processing, besides broadening the giant-atom waveguide physics with optically driven natural atoms.

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