Quantum control of EIT dispersion via atomic tunneling in a double-well Bose-Einstein condensate

Abstract

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is an important tool for controlling light propagation and nonlinear wave mixing in atomic gases with potential applications ranging from quantum computing to table top tests of general relativity. Here we consider EIT in an atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) trapped in a double well potential. A weak probe laser propagates through one of the wells and interacts with atoms in a three-level $\Lambda$ configuration. The well through which the probe propagates is dressed by a strong control laser with Rabi frequency ${\Omega }_{\mu }$, as in standard EIT systems. Tunneling between the wells at the frequency $g$ provides a coherent coupling between identical electronic states in the two wells, which leads to the formation of inter-well dressed states. The tunneling in conjunction with the macroscopic interwell coherence of the BEC wave function, results in the formation of two ultra-narrow absorption resonances for the probe field that are inside of the ordinary EIT transparency window. We show that these new resonances can be interpreted in terms of the inter-well dressed states and the formation of a novel type of dark state involving the control laser and the inter-well tunneling. To either side of these ultra-narrow resonances there is normal dispersion with very large slope controlled by $g$. For realistic values of $g$, the large slope of this dispersion yields group velocities for the probe field that are two orders of magnitude slower than standard EIT systems. We discuss prospects for observing these ultra-narrow resonances and the corresponding regions of high dispersion experimentally.

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