Increasing decoherence rate of Rydberg polaritons due to accumulating dark Rydberg atoms

Ko-Tang Chen, Bongjune Kim, Chia-Chen Su +4

We experimentally observed an accumulative type of nonlinear attenuation and distortion of slow light, i.e., Rydberg polaritons, with the Rydberg state $|32D_{5/2}⟩$ in the w…