Collective Lamb Shift of a Nanoscale Atomic Vapor Layer within a Sapphire Cavity

T. Peyrot; Y. R.P. Sortais; A. Browaeys; A. Sargsyan; D. Sarkisyan; J. Keaveney; I. G. Hughes; C. S. Adams

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.243401

Collective Lamb Shift of a Nanoscale Atomic Vapor Layer within a Sapphire Cavity

T. Peyrot, Y. R.P. Sortais, A. Browaeys, A. Sargsyan, D. Sarkisyan, J. Keaveney, I. G. Hughes, C. S. Adams

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We measure the near-resonant transmission of light through a dense medium of potassium vapor confined in a cell with nanometer thickness in order to investigate the origin and validity of the collective Lamb shift. A complete model including the multiple reflections in the nanocell reproduces accurately the observed line shape. It allows the extraction of a density-dependent shift and width of the bulk atomic medium resonance, deconvolved from the cavity effect. We observe an additional, unexpected dependence of the shift with the thickness of the medium. This extra dependence demands further experimental and theoretical investigations.

Original language	English
Article number	243401
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	120
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.243401
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2018
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Collective Lamb Shift of a Nanoscale Atomic Vapor Layer within a Sapphire Cavity

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