Exciting with Quantum Light. I. Exciting an harmonic oscillator

We start a series of studies 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 non-interacting b...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2016-09
Main Authors: López Carreño, J C, Laussy, F P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boson fields
Excitation
Harmonic oscillators
Hilbert space
Mapping
Optical pumping
Oscillators
Quantum theory
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Summary:We start a series of studies 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 non-interacting 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 opus with an overview of the material to be covered in the subsequent papers.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1601.06187