Dual peaks evoluting into single-peak for sub-wavelength 2-D atom localization in a V-type atomic system

Abstract

The atom localization of a V-type atomic system is discussed by the detunings associated with the probe and the two orthogonal standing-wave fields, and by the spontaneously generated coherence (SGC). Within the half-wavelength domain in the 2-dimensional(2-D) plane, the atom localization depicted by the probe dual absorption peaks is achieved when the detunings are tuned. However, the dual peaks change into single-peak when the SGC arises. The single-peak 2-D localization demonstrated the advantage for atom localization achieved by the flexible manipulating parameters in our scheme.