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Observation of three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear medium

Published:2018-02-16 Issue:6377 Volume:359 Page:783-786
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Liang Qi-Yu¹^ORCID,Venkatramani Aditya V.²^ORCID,Cantu Sergio H.¹^ORCID,Nicholson Travis L.¹^ORCID,Gullans Michael J.³⁴^ORCID,Gorshkov Alexey V.⁴,Thompson Jeff D.⁵^ORCID,Chin Cheng⁶^ORCID,Lukin Mikhail D.²^ORCID,Vuletić Vladan¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

2. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

3. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

4. Joint Quantum Institute and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

5. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

6. James Franck Institute, Enrico Fermi Institute, and Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Abstract

Forming photonic bound states Photons do not naturally interact with each other and must be coaxed into doing so. Liang et al. show that a gas of Rydberg atoms—a cloud of rubidium atoms excited by a sequence of laser pulses—can induce strong interactions between propagating photons. The authors could tune the strength of the interaction to make the photons form dimer and trimer bound states. This approach should prove useful for producing novel quantum states of light and quantum entanglement on demand. Science , this issue p. 783

Funder

NSF

AFOSR

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

ARO

ARO MURI

NSF QIS

ARL CDQI

NSF CUA

Bush Fellowship

NSF PFC at JQI

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