Optical bistability in strong-coupling cavity QED with a few atoms

We present exact numerical solutions of the damped-driven Jaynes-Cummings model adapted to describe absorptive optical bistability in the limit of a few atoms strongly coupled to a high-finesse resonator. We show that the simplifying semiclassical result for many physical quantities of interest is w...

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Published in:Journal of physics. B, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2013-11, Vol.46 (22), p.224010-8
Main Authors: Dombi, A, Vukics, A, Domokos, P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absorptivity
cavity QED
Holes
Jaynes-Cummings model
Mathematical models
nonequilibrium phase transitions
Optical bistability
Quantum electrodynamics
Resonators
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Summary:We present exact numerical solutions of the damped-driven Jaynes-Cummings model adapted to describe absorptive optical bistability in the limit of a few atoms strongly coupled to a high-finesse resonator. We show that the simplifying semiclassical result for many physical quantities of interest is well reproduced by the quantum model including even with only a few atoms in the strongly coupled system. Non-trivial atom-field quantum cross-correlations show up in the strong-driving limit.
ISSN:0953-4075
1361-6455
DOI:10.1088/0953-4075/46/22/224010