Enhancing photoelectric current by nonclassical light

We study the photoelectric current generated by a driving light with nonclassical photon statistics. Due to the nonclassical input photon statistics, it is no longer enough to treat the driving light as a planar wave as in classical physics. We make a quantum approach to study such problems, and fin...

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Published in:New journal of physics 2020-12, Vol.22 (12), p.123011
Main Authors: Yao, Hai-Yan, Li, Sheng-Wen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Light
Luminous intensity
master equation
nonclassical light
photoelectric current
Photoelectricity
photon statistics
Photons
Physics
Statistics
System dynamics
Upper bounds
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Summary:We study the photoelectric current generated by a driving light with nonclassical photon statistics. Due to the nonclassical input photon statistics, it is no longer enough to treat the driving light as a planar wave as in classical physics. We make a quantum approach to study such problems, and find that: when the driving light starts from a coherent state as the initial state, our quantum treatment well returns the quasi-classical driving description; when the the driving light is a generic state with a certain P function, the full system dynamics can be reduced as the P function average of many 'branches'-in each dynamics branch, the driving light starts from a coherent state, thus again the system dynamics can be obtained in the above quasi-classical way. Based on this quantum approach, it turns out the different photon statistics does make differences to the photoelectric current. Among all the classical light states with the same light intensity, we prove that the input light with Poisson statistics generates the largest photoelectric current, while a nonclassical sub-Poisson light could exceed this classical upper bound.
ISSN:1367-2630
1367-2630
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/abcce9