Coherent Control of Photon Correlations in Trapped Ion Crystals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09465v1
• Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 09:58:09 GMT
• Title: Coherent Control of Photon Correlations in Trapped Ion Crystals
• Authors: K. Singh, A. Cidrim, A. Kovalenko, T. Pham, O. Číp, L. Slodička, R. Bachelard,
• Abstract summary: We show how the interference of coherent scattering, combined with spontaneous emission, provides a control mechanism for the light statistics. Our results illustrate how the interference of coherent scattering, combined with spontaneous emission, provides a control mechanism for the light statistics.
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• Abstract: While the spontaneous emission from independent emitters provides spatially uncorrelated photons - a typical manifestation of quantum randomness, the interference of the coherent scattering leads to a well-defined intensity pattern - a feature described by linear optics. We here demonstrate experimentally how the interplay between the two mechanisms in large systems of quantum emitters leads to spatial variations of photon correlations. The implementation with trapped ion crystals in free space allows us to observe the anti-correlation between photon rates and variance of the photon number distributions in chains of up to 18 ions. For smaller crystals of four ions, the transition from a sub-Poissonian to a super-Poissonian variance of the photon number in the scattered light is reported. For higher numbers of scatterers, the photon statistics still display a strong deviation from the fully incoherent scattering case. Our results illustrate how the interference of coherent scattering, combined with spontaneous emission, provides a control mechanism for the light statistics.

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