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Laser Physics

Dressed-state analysis of efficient two-dimensional atom localization in a four-level atomic system

Zhiping Wang, Benli Yu

Published Mar 18, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

We investigate two-dimensional atom localization via spontaneous emission in a four-level atomic system. It is found that the detection probability and precision of two-dimensional atom localization can be significantly improved due to the interference effect between the spontaneous decay channels and the dynamically induced quantum interference generated by the probe and composite fields. More importantly, a 100% probability of finding an atom within the sub-half-wavelength domain of the standing waves can be reached when the corresponding conditions are satisfied. As a result, our scheme may be helpful in laser cooling or atom nano-lithography via atom localization.

DOI
10.1088/1054-660x/24/4/045203

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