Journal article
Quantum sensing protocol for motionally chiral Rydberg atoms
Publication Details
Authors: | Buhmann, S.; Aull, S.; Debatin, M.; Zahariev, P.; Singer, K.; Berger, R.; Diekmann, M.; Giesen, S. |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Journal: | New Journal of Physics |
Pages range : | TBD |
Journal acronym: | New J. Phys. |
Volume number: | 23 |
Issue number: | 8 |
ISSN: | 1367-2630 |
eISSN: | 1367-2630 |
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A quantum sensing protocol is proposed for demonstrating the motion-induced
chirality of circularly polarised Rydberg atoms. To this end, a cloud of
Rydberg atoms is dressed by a bichromatic light field. This allows to exploit
the long-lived ground states for implementing a Ramsey interferometer in
conjunction with a spin echo pulse sequence for refocussing achiral
interactions. Optimal parameters for the dressing lasers are identified.
Combining a circularly polarised dipole transition in the Rydberg atom with
atomic centre-of-mass motion, the system becomes chiral. The resulting
discriminatory chiral energy shifts induced by a chiral mirror are estimated
using a macroscopic quantum electrodynamics approach.