Atomic Physics
Atomic Physics
In our quest to explore the emergent behaviors of interacting quantum systems, our platform of choice, more often than not, is laser cooled atoms.
Approach
- Laser-cooled atoms under high-vacuum provide an exquisitely isolated platform for studies of quantum coherence. This is because such atoms are cold enough that they hardly move, and due to their high-vacuum environment, can persist unperturbed.
- Preparing cold atoms requires a combination of near-resonant lasers and magnetic fields to reach micro-Kelvin temperatures, and far-detuned, high-power lasers for trapping and transport.
- These pristine systems can then be used as a platform for everything from synthetic quantum materials, to the world's most precise clocks, to gravity measurements, and even first-generation quantum computers.
- The picture above shows a magneto-optically-trapped cloud of Rubidium-87 atoms on the left, and a smaller cloud of atoms which has be transported away in an optical conveyor belt-- it is on its way to an optical resonator in our cavity Rydberg polariton experiment!
Related Papers
Aishwarya Kumar, Aziza Suleymanzade, Mark Stone, Lavanya Taneja, Alexander Anferov, David I. Schuster, and Jonathan Simon, "Quantum-enabled millimetre wave to optical transduction using neutral atoms" Nature 615, 614–619
Chuan Yin, Henry Ando, Mark Stone, Danial Shadmany, Anna Soper, Matt Jaffe, Aishwarya Kumar and Jonathan Simon, "A Cavity Load Lock Apparatus for Next-Generation Quantum Optics Experiments" arXiv: 2301.12323
Claire Baum, Matt Jaffe, Lukas Palm, Aishwarya Kumar and Jonathan Simon, "Optical mode conversion via spatiotemporally modulated atomic susceptibility" Opt. Express 31, 528-535
Matt Jaffe, Lukas Palm, Claire Baum, Lavanya Taneja, Aishwarya Kumar, and Jonathan Simon, "Understanding and suppressing backscatter in optical resonators" Optica 8, 878
R. O. Umucalılar, Jonathan Simon, Iacopo Carusotto, "Autonomous stabilization of photonic Laughlin states through angular momentum potentials" Phys. Rev. A 104, 023704
Matt Jaffe, Lukas Palm, Claire Baum, Lavanya Taneja, and Jonathan Simon, "Aberrated optical cavities" Physical Review A 104, 013524
Logan W Clark, Nathan Schine, Claire Baum, Ningyuan Jia and Jonathan Simon, "Observation of Laughlin states made of light" Nature 582, 41-45
Logan W Clark, Ningyuan Jia, Nathan Schine, Claire Baum, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Jonathan Simon, "Interacting Floquet Polaritons" Nature 571, 532–536
Nathan Schine, Michelle Chalupnik, Tankut Can, Andrey Gromov, Jonathan Simon, "Measuring Electromagnetic and Gravitational Responses of Photonic Landau Levels" Nature 565, 173-179
Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Theory of Interacting Cavity Rydberg Polaritons" Quantum Science and Technology, 4, 1
Ningyuan Jia, Nathan Schine, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "A Strongly Interacting Polaritonic Quantum Dot" Nature Physics 14, 550
Peter Ivanov, Fabian Letscher, Jonathan Simon, Michael Fleischhauer, "Adiabatic flux insertion and growing of Laughlin states of cavity Rydberg polaritons" Physical Review A 98, 013847
Jia Ningyuan, Nathan Schine, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Photons and polaritons in a broken-time-reversal non-planar resonator" Physical Review A 97, 013802
Jia Ningyuan, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, Nathan Schine, Ariel Sommer, Jonathan Simon, "Observation and characterization of cavity Rydberg polaritons" Physical Review A 93, 041802
Philipp M Preiss, Ruichao Ma, M Eric Tai, Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner, "Quantum gas microscopy with spin, atom-number, and multilayer readout" Physical Review A 4, 041602
Ariel Sommer, Hans Peter B{"u}chler, Jonathan Simon, "Quantum Crystals and Laughlin Droplets of Cavity Rydberg Polaritons" arXiv:1506.00341 ,
Andrew J Daley, Jonathan Simon, "Effective three-body interactions via photon-assisted tunneling in an optical lattice" Physical Review A 5, 053619
Jonathan Simon, "Condensed-matter physics: Magnetic fields without magnetic fields" Nature 7526, 202-203
Hannes Pichler, Johannes Schachenmayer, Jonathan Simon, Peter Zoller, Andrew J Daley, "Noise-and disorder-resilient optical lattices" Physical Review A 5, 051605
Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner, "Condensed-matter physics: A duo of graphene mimics" Nature 7389, 282-284
Jonathan Simon, Waseem S Bakr, Ruichao Ma, M Eric Tai, Philipp M Preiss, Markus Greiner, "Quantum simulation of antiferromagnetic spin chains in an optical lattice" Nature 7343, 307-312
Haruka Tanji-Suzuki, Wenlan Chen, Renate Landig, Jonathan Simon, Vladan Vuletic, "Vacuum-induced transparency" Science 6047, 1266-1269
Ruichao Ma, M Eric Tai, Philipp M Preiss, Waseem S Bakr, Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner, "Photon-assisted tunneling in a biased strongly correlated Bose gas" Physical review letters 9, 095301
Waseem S Bakr, Philipp M Preiss, M Eric Tai, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner, "Orbital excitation blockade and algorithmic cooling in quantum gases" Nature 7378, 500-503
Haruka Tanji-Suzuki, Ian D Leroux, Monika H Schleier-Smith, Marko Cetina, Andrew T Grier, Jonathan Simon, Vladan Vuletic, "Interaction between atomic ensembles and optical resonators: classical description" arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3594 ,
Waseem S Bakr, Amy Peng, M Eric Tai, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, Jonathon I Gillen, Simon Foelling, Lode Pollet, Markus Greiner, "Probing the superfluid--to--mott insulator transition at the single-atom level" Science 5991, 547-550
Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Jonathan Simon, Benjamin Bloom, Vladan Vuletic, "Heralded single-magnon quantum memory for photon polarization states" Physical Review Letters 4, 043601
Haruka Tanji, Jonathan Simon, Saikat Ghosh, Benjamin Bloom, Vladan Vuletic, "Heralded atomic-ensemble quantum memory for photon polarization states" Physica Scripta T135, 014010
Haruka Tanji, Jonathan Simon, Saikat Ghosh, Vladan Vuletic, "Simplified measurement of the Bell parameter within quantum mechanics" arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4549
Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, James K Thompson, Vladan Vuletic, "Interfacing collective atomic excitations and single photons" Physical review letters 18, 183601
Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Vladan Vuletic, "Single-photon bus connecting spin-wave quantum memories" Nature Physics 11, 765-769
Vladan Vuletic, James K Thompson, Adam T Black, Jonathan Simon, "External-feedback laser cooling of molecular gases" Physical Review A 5, 051405
James K Thompson, Jonathan Simon, Huanqian Loh, Vladan Vuletic, "A high-brightness source of narrowband, identical-photon pairs" Science 5783, 74-77
Huanqian Loh, Yu-Ju Lin, Igor Teper, Marko Cetina, Jonathan Simon, James K Thompson, Vladan Vuletic, "Influence of grating parameters on the linewidths of external-cavity diode lasers" Applied optics 36, 9191-9197
Vladan Vuletic, Saikat Ghosh, Vlatko Balic, Marko Cetina, Andrew Grier, Ian Leroux, Yu-ju Lin, Jonathan Simon, Monika Schleier-Smith, Haruka Tanji, ,others, "Quantum Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms and Photons"
Vladan Vuletic, Chiara D’Errico, Branislav Jelenkovic, Sebastian Hofferberth, Matthias Scholz, Alexei Bylinskii, Marko Cetina, Wenlan Chen, Andrew Grier, Ian Leroux, ,others, "Quantum Manipulation Using Light-Atom Interaction"
Vladan Vuletic, Saikat Ghosh, Sebastian Hofferberth, Fedja Orucevic, Marko Cetina, Andrew Grier, Ian Leroux, Thibault Peyronel, Jonathan Simon, Monika Schleier-Smith, ,others, "Nonclassical States of Cold Atomic Ensembles and of Light Fields"