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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)729-733
Number of pages5
JournalNano Letters
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Feb 2011

Keywords

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

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