Chirality-enabled optical dipole potential energy for two-level atoms

V. E. Lembessis; Koray Koksal; Jun Yuan; Mohamed Babiker

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013106

Chirality-enabled optical dipole potential energy for two-level atoms

V. E. Lembessis, Koray Koksal, Jun Yuan, Mohamed Babiker

Physics

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

We consider the optical dipole potential energy, which arises from the interaction of a two-level atom with a circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam of small waist. The beam is characterized by the existence of a longitudinal electric field component which is responsible for the appearance of a chiral term in the optical
dipole potential energy. This term reverses sign if either the winding number or the wave polarization of the beam reverses sign. We propose a scheme of a bi-chromatic vortex interaction with the two-level atom in which the resulting optical dipole potential is fully chiral.

Original language	English
Article number	013106
Journal	Physical Review A
Volume	103
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013106
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2021

Bibliographical note

©2021 American Physical Society. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details.

Access to Document

10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013106

Vassillis2021_AutherPreprint
©2021 American Physical Society. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details.
Accepted author manuscript, 225 KB

Cite this

@article{21d039d6cd8e442a8162a90f70b5671c,

title = "Chirality-enabled optical dipole potential energy for two-level atoms",

abstract = "We consider the optical dipole potential energy, which arises from the interaction of a two-level atom with a circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam of small waist. The beam is characterized by the existence of a longitudinal electric field component which is responsible for the appearance of a chiral term in the opticaldipole potential energy. This term reverses sign if either the winding number or the wave polarization of the beam reverses sign. We propose a scheme of a bi-chromatic vortex interaction with the two-level atom in which the resulting optical dipole potential is fully chiral.",

author = "Lembessis, {V. E.} and Koray Koksal and Jun Yuan and Mohamed Babiker",

note = "{\textcopyright}2021 American Physical Society. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher{\textquoteright}s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details.",

year = "2021",

month = jan,

day = "13",

doi = "10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013106",

language = "English",

volume = "103",

journal = "Physical Review A",

issn = "1050-2947",

publisher = "American Physical Society",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Chirality-enabled optical dipole potential energy for two-level atoms

AU - Lembessis, V. E.

AU - Koksal, Koray

AU - Yuan, Jun

AU - Babiker, Mohamed

N1 - ©2021 American Physical Society. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details.

PY - 2021/1/13

Y1 - 2021/1/13

N2 - We consider the optical dipole potential energy, which arises from the interaction of a two-level atom with a circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam of small waist. The beam is characterized by the existence of a longitudinal electric field component which is responsible for the appearance of a chiral term in the opticaldipole potential energy. This term reverses sign if either the winding number or the wave polarization of the beam reverses sign. We propose a scheme of a bi-chromatic vortex interaction with the two-level atom in which the resulting optical dipole potential is fully chiral.

AB - We consider the optical dipole potential energy, which arises from the interaction of a two-level atom with a circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian laser beam of small waist. The beam is characterized by the existence of a longitudinal electric field component which is responsible for the appearance of a chiral term in the opticaldipole potential energy. This term reverses sign if either the winding number or the wave polarization of the beam reverses sign. We propose a scheme of a bi-chromatic vortex interaction with the two-level atom in which the resulting optical dipole potential is fully chiral.

U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013106

DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013106

M3 - Article

SN - 1050-2947

VL - 103

JO - Physical Review A

JF - Physical Review A

M1 - 013106

ER -