Reimann, Rene

Date: Monday Dec 1, 2014
Time: 14:00
Place: ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Host: Tobias Donner / Tilman Esslinger

Cooling and Cooperative Coupling of Single Atoms in an Optical Cavity

Rene Reimann
Universität Bonn, Germany

I talk about how the motional state of single cesium atoms strongly coupled to an optical high-finesse cavity is controlled and manipulated by a novel Raman cooling scheme. The special feature of the scheme is the absence of the motional carrier transition.

Furthermore, cavity-modified Rayleigh scattering of exactly two atoms is observed and explained by collective coupling of the atoms to the cavity mode. Here, special attention is given to the role of the cavity and the measurements’ sensitivity to relative phases.