Abstract
A simple model of parametric coupling between two fermionic oscillators is considered. Statistical properties, in particular the mean and variance of quanta for a single mode, are described by means of a time-dependent reduced density operator for the system and the associated function. The density operator for fermionic fields as introduced by Cahill and Glauber [K. E. Cahill and R. J. Glauber, Phys. Rev. A 59, 1538 (1999)] thus can be shown to provide a quantum mechanical description of the fields closely resembling their bosonic counterpart. In doing so, special emphasis is given to population trapping, and quantum control over the states of the system.
- Received 19 May 2014
- Revised 6 August 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043820
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