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Frontiers of Physics

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Front. Phys.    2018, Vol. 13 Issue (5) : 134208    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-018-0817-8
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Three-dimensional atom localization via spontaneous emission in a four-level atom
Fei Song, Jin-Yu Chen, Zhi-Ping Wang(), Ben-Li Yu
Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China
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Abstract

We investigate high-precision three-dimensional (3D) atom localization in a coherently-driven, fourlevel atomic system via spontaneous emission. Space-dependent atom-field interactions allow atomic position information to be obtained by measuring spontaneous emission. By properly varying system parameters, atoms within a certain range can be localized with nearly a probability of 100% and a maximal resolution of ~0.04λ. This scheme may be useful for the high-precision measurement of the center-of-mass wave functions of moving atoms and in atom nanolithography.

Keywords atom localization      spontaneous emission      dressed-state picture     
Corresponding Author(s): Zhi-Ping Wang   
Issue Date: 06 August 2018
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Fei Song,Jin-Yu Chen,Zhi-Ping Wang, et al. Three-dimensional atom localization via spontaneous emission in a four-level atom[J]. Front. Phys. , 2018, 13(5): 134208.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fop/EN/10.1007/s11467-018-0817-8
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fop/EN/Y2018/V13/I5/134208
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