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View SchemaVisualization of Coherent Destruction of Tunneling in an Optical Double Well System
| Authors | G. Della Valle, M. Ornigotti, E. Cianci, V. Foglietti, P. Laporta, S. Longhi |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0701121 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701121 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.263601 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 263601 (2007) |
Abstract
We report on a direct visualization of coherent destruction of tunneling (CDT) of light waves in a double well system which provides an optical analog of quantum CDT as originally proposed by Grossmann, Dittrich, Jung, and Hanggi [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 67}, 516 (1991)]. The driven double well, realized by two periodically-curved waveguides in an Er:Yb-doped glass, is designed so that spatial light propagation exactly mimics the coherent space-time dynamics of matter waves in a driven double-well potential governed by the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The fluorescence of Er ions is exploited to image the spatial evolution of light in the two wells, clearly demonstrating suppression of light tunneling for special ratios between frequency and amplitude of the driving field.
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"title": "Visualization of Coherent Destruction of Tunneling in an Optical Double Well System",
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