L.L. Ying

Vacuum induced Aulter-Townes splitting in a superconducting artificial atom

  1. Z.H. Peng,
  2. J.H. Ding,
  3. Y. Zhou,
  4. L.L. Ying,
  5. Z. Wang,
  6. L. Zhou,
  7. L.M. Kuang,
  8. Yu-xi Liu,
  9. O. Astfiev,
  10. and J. S. Tsai
We study experimentally a vacuum induced Aulter-Townes doublet in a superconducting three-level artificial atom strongly coupled to a coplanar waveguide resonator and simultaneously
to a transmission line. The Aulter-Townes splitting is observed in the reflection spectrum of the three-level atom when the transition between two excited states is resonant with the resonator. By varying an amplitude of the driving field applied to the resonator, we observe quantum-to-classical transition of the Aulter-Townes splitting. Our results may pave the way for the control of microwaves by single photons.
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