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Strategic Plan for Neutral Atom Quantum Computation
Adrian J. Menssen, Tout Wang, Michael Gullans +53
We present a strategic plan for neutral atom quantum computation, bringing together hardware development and theory advancements to achieve the goal of practical quantum advantage.…
Atom--photon Entanglement with a Single Trapped Cesium Atom
H. Hwang, J. Moon, F. Herzallah +3
We demonstrate atom--photon entanglement using a single cesium atom trapped in an optical tweezer. Entanglement is generated by resonant excitation and subsequent spontaneous decay…
Galilean Invariance in the Characterization of Light Drag in Moving Atomic Vapor
Edgar S. Arroyo-Rivera, Long D. Nguyen, Surendar Vijayakumar +2
Light experiences drag effects when it propagates through a moving medium. The study of light drag has provided foundational insights into light-matter interactions. While longitud…
Modeling beam propagation in a moving nonlinear medium
Ryan Hogan, Giulia Marcucci, Akbar Safari +4
Fully describing light propagation in a rotating, anisotropic medium with thermal nonlinearity requires modeling the interplay between nonlinear refraction, birefringence, and the…
The shadow of a laser beam
Raphael A Abrahao, Henri P N Morin, Jordan T R Page +3
Light, being massless, casts no shadow; under ordinary circumstances, photons pass right through each other unimpeded. Here, we demonstrate a laser beam acting like an object - the…
Strong Reverse Saturation and Fast-Light in Ruby
Akbar Safari, Cara Selvarajah, Jenine Evans +2
We observe a strong reverse saturation of absorption in ruby at a wavelength of 473 nm. With an intensity-modulated laser, we observe that the peaks of the pulses appear more than…
Beam deflection and negative drag in a moving nonlinear medium
Ryan Hogan, Akbar Safari, Giulia Marcucci +2
Light propagating in a moving medium with refractive index other than unity is subject to light drag. While the light drag effect due to the linear refractive index is often neglig…
An architecture for quantum networking of neutral atom processors
C. B. Young, A. Safari, P. Huft +4
Development of a network for remote entanglement of quantum processors is an outstanding challenge in quantum information science. We propose and analyze a two-species architecture…
Spatial Coherence of Light in Collective Spontaneous Emission
D. C. Gold, P. Huft, C. Young +4
When a quantum system is put into an excited state, it will decay back to the ground state through a process termed spontaneous emission. It is generally assumed that spontaneous e…
Selective Excitation of Subwavelength Atomic Clouds
Rasoul Alaee, Akbar Safari, Robert W. Boyd
A dense cloud of atoms with randomly changing positions exhibits coherent and incoherent scattering. We show that an atomic cloud of subwavelength dimensions can be modeled as a si…
Superscattering, Superabsorption, and Nonreciprocity in Nonlinear Antennas
Lin Cheng, Rasoul Alaee, Akbar Safari +3
We propose tunable nonlinear antennas based on an epsilon-near-zero material with a large optical nonlinearity. We show that the absorption and scattering cross sections of the ant…
Kerker Effect, Superscattering, and Scattering Dark State in Atomic Antennas
Rasoul Alaee, Akbar Safari, Vahid Sandoghdar +1
We study scattering phenomena such as the Kerker effect, superscattering, and scattering dark states in a subwavelength atomic antenna consisting of atoms with only electric dipole…
Terahertz Nonlinear Optical Response of Water Vapor
Payman Rasekh, Akbar Safari, Murat Yildirim +4
We report on the nonlinear spectroscopy of water vapor at THz frequencies. Atmospheric water vapor has a rich spectrum with several strong resonances at frequencies below 3 THz, fa…
Measurement of the Photon-Plasmon Coupling Phase
Akbar Safari, Robert Fickler, Enno Giese +3
Scattering processes have played a crucial role in the development of quantum theory. In the field of optics, scattering phase shifts have been utilized to unveil interesting forms…
Generation of Caustics and Spatial Rogue Waves from Nonlinear Instability
Akbar Safari, Robert Fickler, Miles J. Padgett +1
Caustics are natural phenomena in which nature concentrates the energy of waves. Although, they are known mostly in optics, caustics are intrinsic to all wave phenomena. For exampl…
Exotic Looped Trajectories of Photons in Three-Slit Interference
Omar S. Magana-Loaiza, Israel De Leon, Mohammad Mirhosseini +8
The validity of the superposition principle and of Born's rule are well-accepted tenants of quantum mechanics. Surprisingly, it has recently been predicted that the intensity patte…
Theory of multiplexed photon number discrimination
Filippo. M. Miatto, Akbar Safari, Robert W. Boyd
Although some non-trivial photon number resolving detectors exist, it may still be convenient to discriminate photon number states with the method of multiplexed detection. Multipl…