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Physica Scripta

Optical realization of the atom–field interaction in waveguide lattices

Armando Pérez-Leija, H. M. Moya-Cessa, Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Published Feb 1, 2012• 4 citations
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Abstract

A classical realization of the atom-field interaction Hamiltonian, based on the transport of light in engineered optical waveguide lattices, is theoretically proposed. The optical lattice enables direct visualization of atom-field dynamics in Fock space.
DOI
10.1088/0031-8949/2012/t147/014023

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