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Demonstration of the Jaynes-Cummings ladder with Rydberg-dressed atoms

arXiv:1609.03940 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.041801

Abstract

We observe the nonlinearity of the Jaynes-Cummings (JC) ladder in the Autler-Townes spectroscopy of the hyperfine ground states for a Rydberg-dressed two-atom system. Here the role of the two-level system in the JC model is played by the presence or absence of a collective Rydberg excitation, and the bosonic mode manifests as the number of single atom spin flips, symmetrically distributed between the atoms. We measure the normal-mode splitting and nonlinearity as a function of detuning and Rabi frequency, thereby experimentally establishing the isomorphism with the JC model.

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