Tuesday, February 5, 2013

1302.0455 (Lan Zhou et al.)

Weak-Value Amplification of light deflection by a dark atomic ensemble    [PDF]

Lan Zhou, Yusuf Turek, C. P. Sun, F. Nori
We study the coherent propagation of light whose dynamics is governed by the effective Schr\"{o}dinger equation derived in a magneto-optically-manipulated atomic ensemble with a four-level tripod configuration for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). The small transverse deflection of an optical beam, which is ultra-sensitive to the EIT effect, could be drastically amplified via a weak measurement with an appropriate preselection and postselection of the polarization state. The physical mechanism is explained as the effect of wavepacket reshaping, which results in an enlarged group velocity in the transverse direction.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0455

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