Abstract
We present a two-part study of the excitation of an optical target by quantum light. In this first part, we introduce the problematic and address the first case of interest, that of exciting the quantum harmonic oscillator, corresponding to, e.g., a single-mode passive cavity or a noninteracting bosonic field. We introduce a mapping of the Hilbert space that allows to chart usefully the accessible regions. We then consider the quantum excitation from single-photon sources in the form of a two-level system under various regimes of (classical) pumping: incoherent, coherent, and in the Mollow triplet regime. We close this first part with an overview of the material to be covered in the subsequent work.
3 More- Received 3 September 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.063825
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Synopsis
When Quantum Light Meets Matter
Published 13 December 2016
A theoretical analysis of the interaction between quantum light and matter shows that quantum light can offer advantages over its classical analog.
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