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Physical Review A

Quantum coherence generated by quantum interference

Jean Claude Garreau

Published Jan 1, 1996• 7 citations
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Abstract

This paper deals with a system exhibiting quantum interference in the two-photon coupling between its ground state and the continuum through two quasiresonant intermediate levels by two modes of the electromagnetic field. We show that this system can generate quantum coherence among the two field modes, the internal and the external degrees of freedom. Two applications are discussed: generation of photon-number correlations between the two modes, and selection of atoms in a given velocity class. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.53.486

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Quantum interference and coherence effects in the interaction of atoms with the quantized electromagnetic field are investigated theoretically. A general master equation for the description of atom-field interactions is introduced. The interplay of the concepts of complementarity and interference in the time-energy domain are studied on the basis of the fluorescence light emitted by a single laser-driven atom, where the coherence of spontaneous processes gives rise to quantum interference in the spectrum of resonance fluorescence. The vacuum-induced dipole-dipole interaction in pairs of multi-level atoms is analyzed. It is shown that the interaction between orthogonal transition dipole moments of different atoms does not only influence the system dynamics crucially, but implies that the few-level approximation in general cannot be applied to near-degenerate Zeeman sublevels of the atomic level scheme. Potential applications of dipole-dipole interacting multi-level atoms for the implementation of decoherence-free subspaces and the generation of entanglement between atomic states are examined. The generation of an entangled state of the radiation field with a macroscopic number of photons is discussed on the basis of a single-atom laser.
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