Abdumalikov, A. A. and Astafiev, O. and Zagoskin, A. M. and Pashkin, Yuri and Nakamura, Y. and Tsai, J. S. (2010) Electromagnetically Induced Transparency on a Single Artificial Atom. Physical review letters, 104 (19): 193601. -. ISSN 0031-9007
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We present experimental observation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) on a single macroscopic artificial "atom'' (superconducting quantum system) coupled to open 1D space of a transmission line. Unlike in an optical media with many atoms, the single-atom EIT in 1D space is revealed in suppression of reflection of electromagnetic waves, rather than absorption. The observed almost 100% modulation of the reflection and transmission of propagating microwaves demonstrates full controllability of individual artificial atoms and a possibility to manipulate the atomic states. The system can be used as a switchable mirror of microwaves and opens a good perspective for its applications in photonic quantum information processing and other fields.