Periodically modulated electromagnetically induced transparency

TL;DR

This paper proposes periodically modulated experiments in a three-level system to explore electromagnetically induced transparency, demonstrating that quantum destructive interference, not Autler-Townes Splitting, explains the phenomena more accurately.

Contribution

It introduces a novel modulation approach to distinguish the underlying mechanism of PEIT, favoring QDI over ATS in interpretation.

Findings

Modulated experiments favor QDI interpretation of PEIT

Analytical and numerical results support QDI dominance

Applicable to atomic gases, superconducting devices, and meta-materials

Abstract

Phenomena of electromagnetically induced transparency (PEIT) may be interpreted by the Autler-Townes Splitting (ATS), where the coupled states are split by the coupling laser field, or by the quantum destructive interference (QDI), where the atomic phases caused by the coupling laser and the probe laser field cancel. We propose modulated experiments to explore the PEIT in an alternative way by periodically modulating the coupling and the probe fields in a ?-type three-level system. Our analytical and numerical results rule out the ATS interpretation and show that the QDI interpretation is more appropriate for the modulated experiments. The proposed experiments are readily implemented in atomic gases, artificial atoms in superconducting quantum devices, or three-level meta-atoms in meta-materials.