Vacuum Rabi Splitting Observed on a Microscopic Atomic Sample in a Microwave Cavity
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Europhysics Letters
- Vol. 17 (1), 33-38
- https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/17/1/007
Abstract
We have observed the vacuum Rabi splitting on a beam of Rydberg atoms resonantly coupled to a high-Q superconducting cavity mode. The splitting is resolved down to five atoms on average inside the cavity and only three atoms resonant with the mode.Keywords
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