Tunneling-induced spectral broadening of a single atom in a three-dimensional optical lattice

Wookrae Kim; Changwon Park; Jung Ryul Kim; Youngwoon Choi; Sungsam Kang; Sooin Lim; Yea Lee Lee; Jisoon Ihm; Kyungwon An

doi:10.1021/nl103858x

Tunneling-induced spectral broadening of a single atom in a three-dimensional optical lattice

Wookrae Kim, Changwon Park, Jung Ryul Kim, Youngwoon Choi, Sungsam Kang, Sooin Lim, Yea Lee Lee, Jisoon Ihm, Kyungwon An

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Abstract

We have investigated the spectral broadening in the near-resonance fluorescence spectrum of a single rubidium atom trapped in a three-dimensional (3D) optical lattice in a strong Lamb-Dicke regime. Besides the strong Rayleigh peak, the spectrum exhibited weak Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman sidebands. The line width of the Rayleigh peak for low potential depths was well explained by matter-wave tunneling between the first-two lowest vibrational states of 3D anisotropic harmonic potentials of adjacent local minima of the optical lattice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	729-733
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/nl103858x
Publication status	Published - 2011 Feb 9

Keywords

Lamb-Dicke regime
Single-atom spectrum
heterodyne spectroscopy
matter-wave tunneling
optical lattice
resonance fluorescence

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Bioengineering
Chemistry(all)
Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics
Mechanical Engineering

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Tunneling-induced spectral broadening of a single atom in a three-dimensional optical lattice

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