Tuning atom-field interaction via phase shaping

A coherent electromagnetic field can be described by its amplitude, frequency, and phase. All these properties can influence the interaction between the field and an atom. Here we demonstrate the phase shaping of microwaves that are loaded onto a superconducting artificial atom in a semiinfinite 1D transmission line, a setup corresponding to an atom in front of a mirror. In particular, we input a weak exponentially rising pulse with phase modulation to the atom-mirror system. We observe that field-atom interaction can be tuned from nearly full interaction (loading efficiency, i.e., amount of energy transferred from the field to the atom, of 94.5 %) to effectively no interaction (loading efficiency 3.5 %).

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