Quantum tunneling in a Kerr medium with parametric pumping

B. Wielinga and G. J. Milburn
Phys. Rev. A 48, 2494 – Published 1 September 1993
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Abstract

A quantum optical model with a classical phase space exhibiting nonlinear oscillations around two elliptic fixed points is investigated. The quantum system is found to display coherent tunneling between near coherent states of opposite phase centered at the classical fixed points.

  • Received 16 March 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.48.2494

©1993 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

B. Wielinga and G. J. Milburn

  • Department of Physics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia 4072, Australia

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Vol. 48, Iss. 3 — September 1993

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