Long-range interactions and entanglement of slow single-photon pulses

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作者
Friedler, I [1 ]
Petrosyan, D
Fleischhauer, M
Kurizki, G
机构
[1] Weizmann Inst Sci, Dept Chem Sci, IL-76100 Rehovot, Israel
[2] FORTH, Inst Elect Struct & Laser, GR-71110 Iraklion, Crete, Greece
[3] Univ Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Phys, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2005年 / 72卷 / 04期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.72.043803
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We show that very large nonlocal nonlinear interactions between pairs of colliding slow-light pulses can be realized in atomic vapors in the regime of electromagnetically induced transparency. These nonlinearities are mediated by strong, long-range dipole-dipole interactions between Rydberg states of the multilevel atoms in a ladder configuration. In contrast to previously studied schemes, this mechanism can yield a homogeneous conditional phase shift of pi even for weakly focused single-photon pulses, thereby allowing a deterministic realization of the photonic phase gate.
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