Amplifying single impurities immersed in a gas of ultracold atoms

Olmos, B.; Li, W.; Hofferberth, S.; Lesanovsky, I.

Abstract

We present a method for amplifying a single or scattered impurities immersed in a background gas of ultracold atoms so that they can be optically imaged and spatially resolved. Our approach relies on a Raman transfer between two stable atomic hyperfine states that is conditioned on the presence of an impurity atom. The amplification is based on the strong interaction among atoms excited to Rydberg states. We perform a detailed analytical study of the performance of the proposed scheme with particular emphasis on the influence of inevitable many-body effects.

Citation

Olmos, B., Li, W., Hofferberth, S., & Lesanovsky, I. (2011). Amplifying single impurities immersed in a gas of ultracold atoms. Physical Review A, 84(4), Article 041607(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.041607

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Oct 19, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011-10
• Deposit Date: Feb 15, 2023
• Print ISSN: 2469-9926
• Electronic ISSN: 2469-9934
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 84
• Issue: 4
• Article Number: 041607(R)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.041607
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/12901975
• Publisher URL: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.041607