In this paper, we consider the effects of strong dipole-dipole interactions on three-level interference phenomena such as coherent population trapping and electromagnetically induced transparency. Experiments are performed on laser cooled rubidium atoms and the results compared to a many-body theory based on either a reduced many-body density matrix expansion or Monte Carlo simulations of many-body rate equations. We show that these approaches permit quantitative predictions of the experimentally observed excitation and transmission spectra. Based on the calculations, we moreover predict a universal scaling of the nonlinear response of cold Rydberg gases. © 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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Sevinçli, S., Ates, C., Pohl, T., Schempp, H., Hofmann, C. S., Günter, G., … Adams, C. S. (2011). Quantum interference in interacting three-level Rydberg gases: Coherent population trapping and electromagnetically induced transparency. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 44(18). https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/44/18/184018
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