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In this thesis, Rydberg EIT has been used to combine the strong dipole–dipole interactions of the Rydberg states with the resonant Dark state to realise a novel cooperative optical non-linearity. An interacting \(\,{\mathcal{ N} }{}\)-atom model was developed to show the effect of the dipole blockade is to prevent more than a single Dark state in each blockade region. The remaining atoms scatter photons from the probe laser, suppressing the resonant transmission.
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Pritchard, J.D. (2012). Conclusion . In: Cooperative Optical Non-Linearity in a Blockaded Rydberg Ensemble. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29712-0_10
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