Coherent Control of Photon Correlations in Trapped Ion Crystals
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Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15310/25:73630914
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.203602" target="_blank" >https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.203602</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.203602" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.203602</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Coherent Control of Photon Correlations in Trapped Ion Crystals
Original language description
While the spontaneous emission from independent emitters provides spatially uncorrelated photons a typical manifestation of quantum randomness, the interference of the coherent scattering leads to a well-defined intensity pattern a feature described by linear optics. We here demonstrate experimentally how the interplay between the two mechanisms in large systems of quantum emitters leads to spatial variations of photon correlations. The implementation with trapped ion crystals in free space allows us to observe the anticorrelation between photon rates and variance of the photon number distributions in chains of up to 18 ions. For smaller crystals of four ions, the transition from antibunching to bunching and super-Poissonian statistics of the scattered light is reported. For higher numbers of scatterers, the photon statistics still display a strong deviation from the fully incoherent scattering case. Our results illustrate how the interference of coherent scattering, combined with spontaneous emission, provides a control mechanism for the light statistics.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Review Letters
ISSN
0031-9007
e-ISSN
1079-7114
Volume of the periodical
134
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
203602
UT code for WoS article
001498272100016
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105005950539