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Three-dimensional theory for interaction between atomic ensembles and free-space light

L. -M. Duan, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller

abstract: Atomic ensembles have shown to be a promising candidate for implementations of quantum information processing by many recently-discovered schemes. All these schemes are based on the interaction between optical beams and atomic ensembles. For description of these interactions, one assumed either a cavity-QED model or a one-dimensional light propagation model, which is still inadequate for a full prediction and understanding of most of the current experimental efforts which are actually taken in the three-dimensional free space. Here, we propose a perturbative theory to describe the three-dimensional effects in interaction between atomic ensembles and free-space light with a level configuration important for several applications. The calculations reveal some significant effects which are not known before from the other approaches, such as the inherent mode-mismatching noise and the optimal mode-matching conditions. The three-dimensional theory confirms the collective enhancement of the signal-to-noise ratio which is believed to be one of the main advantage of the ensemble-based quantum information processing schemes, however, it also shows that this enhancement need to be understood in a more subtle way with an appropriate mode matching method.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0205005
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
16 pages, 9 figures
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.023818
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0205005
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. A 66, 023818 (2002).
created:
2002-05-01

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