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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4808
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- IQIM
- NSF Physics Frontiers Center
- Moore Foundation
- DARPA ORCHID program
- AFOSR QuMPASS MURI
- DoD NSSEFF program
- NSF [PHY-1205729]
- Nakajima Foundation
- International Fulbright Science and Technology Award
- KIST institutional program
- Fundacio Privada Cellex Barcelona
- National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [2E24882] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1205729] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1125565] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The integration of nanophotonics and atomic physics has been a long-sought goal that would open new frontiers for optical physics, including novel quantum transport and many-body phenomena with photon-mediated atomic interactions. Reaching this goal requires surmounting diverse challenges in nanofabrication and atomic manipulation. Here we report the development of a novel integrated optical circuit with a photonic crystal capable of both localizing and interfacing atoms with guided photons. Optical bands of a photonic crystal waveguide are aligned with selected atomic transitions. From reflection spectra measured with average atom number (N) over bar = 1: 1 +/- 0: 4, we infer that atoms are localized within the waveguide by optical dipole forces. The fraction of single-atom radiative decay into the waveguide is Gamma(1D)/Gamma' similar or equal to (0.32 +/- 0.08), where Gamma(1D) is the rate of emission into the guided mode and Gamma' is the decay rate into all other channels. Gamma(1D)/Gamma' is unprecedented in all current atom-photon interfaces.
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