Nanophotonic cavity QED with multiple trapped atoms

POSTER

Abstract

Realization of coherent atom interactions mediated by photons in optical cavity QED has been a long-standing goal in AMO physics.~We present a new method for trapping and cooling two atoms near a nanophotonic cavity [1], and describe our progress towards preparing an entangled state of two atoms mediated by the cavity photons. Our approach can be extended to realizing an efficient quantum state transfer and quantum gates [2], with applications to integrated quantum networks. [1] J. D. Thompson, T. G. Tiecke, N. P. de Leon, J. Feist, A. V. Akimov, M. Gullans, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, and M. D. Lukin, Science 340, 1202 (2013) [2] T. G. Tiecke, J. D. Thompson, N. P. de Leon, L. R. Liu, V. Vuletic and M. D. Lukin, Nature 508, 241 (2014)

Authors

  • Tamara Dordevic

    • Harvard University, Department of Physics

  • Polnop Samutpraphoot

    • Harvard University, Department of Physics

  • Crystal Senko

    • Harvard University, Department of Physics

  • Sylvain Schwartz

    • Harvard University, Department of Physics

  • Vladan Vuletic

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • MIT, Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Mikhail Lukin

    • Harvard Univ
    • Harvard University
    • Harvard University, Department of Physics
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    • Physics Department, Harvard University
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University