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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Experimental observation of multi-atom Dicke states in an atomic vapor using optical 2D coherent spectroscopy

ShaoGang Yu, Michael Titze, Yifu Zhu, Xiaojun Liu, Hebin Li

Published May 5, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report the first observation of two-, three-, four-, five-, six-, and seven-atom Dicke states in an atomic vapor using optical multi-quantum 2D coherent spectroscopy. This has significant implications in the studies of many-body physics. © 2019 The Author(s)
DOI
10.23919/cleo.2019.8750260

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