Probing the motion of cold atoms by Faraday spectroscopy

Greg A. Smith; Souma Chaudhury; Poul S. Jessen

doi:10.1117/12.504771

16 May 2003 Probing the motion of cold atoms by Faraday spectroscopy

Greg A. Smith, Souma Chaudhury, Poul S. Jessen

Proceedings Volume 5111, Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504771
Event: SPIE's First International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Abstract

We have implemented a continuous measurement of the mean magnetic moment of an ensemble of atoms trapped in a far-off-resonance optical lattice, by detecting the Faraday rotation of one of the lattice beams after it has passed through the atom cloud. In a first demonstration experiment we have observed Larmor precession with high signal-to-noise ratio, and compared the performance of the measurement with a simple theory. Faraday spectroscopy offers an ideal method to monitor the atomic dynamics and will be applied to the study of quantum chaos in magneto-optical lattices. In principle the measurement sensitivity can be increased to the point where quantum backaction becomes significant, thereby opening the door to studies of quantum feedback, spin squeezing and the role played by quantum measurement in quantum/classical correspondence.

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Greg A. Smith, Souma Chaudhury, and Poul S. Jessen "Probing the motion of cold atoms by Faraday spectroscopy", Proc. SPIE 5111, Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics, (16 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504771

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