Cavity QED in the ultrastrong coupling regime: photon bunching from the emission of individual dressed qubits
Cavity QED in the ultrastrong coupling regime: photon bunching from the emission of individual dressed qubits
Photon antibunching in the light scattered by single quantum emitters is one of the hallmarks of quantum optics, providing an unequivocal demonstration of the quantized nature of the electromagnetic field. Antibunching can be intuitively understood by the need for a two-level system lying in its lower state after emitting a photon to be re-excited into the upper one before a second emission can take place. Here we show that such a picture breaks down in the ultrastrong light–matter coupling regime, when the coupling strength becomes comparable to the bare emitter frequency. Specializing to the cases of both a natural and an artificial atom, we thus show that a single emitter coupled to a photonic resonator can emit bunched light. The result presented herein is clear evidence of how the ultrastrong coupling regime is able to change the nature of individual atoms.
Cavity QED, Ultrastrong Coupling, Two-Photon Correlation Function
2345–2351
Garziano, Luigi
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Ridolfo, Alessandro
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De Liberato, Simone
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Savasta, Salvatore
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20 September 2017
Garziano, Luigi
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Ridolfo, Alessandro
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De Liberato, Simone
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Savasta, Salvatore
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Garziano, Luigi, Ridolfo, Alessandro, De Liberato, Simone and Savasta, Salvatore
(2017)
Cavity QED in the ultrastrong coupling regime: photon bunching from the emission of individual dressed qubits.
ACS Photonics, 4 (9), .
(doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00635).
Abstract
Photon antibunching in the light scattered by single quantum emitters is one of the hallmarks of quantum optics, providing an unequivocal demonstration of the quantized nature of the electromagnetic field. Antibunching can be intuitively understood by the need for a two-level system lying in its lower state after emitting a photon to be re-excited into the upper one before a second emission can take place. Here we show that such a picture breaks down in the ultrastrong light–matter coupling regime, when the coupling strength becomes comparable to the bare emitter frequency. Specializing to the cases of both a natural and an artificial atom, we thus show that a single emitter coupled to a photonic resonator can emit bunched light. The result presented herein is clear evidence of how the ultrastrong coupling regime is able to change the nature of individual atoms.
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 August 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 August 2017
Published date: 20 September 2017
Keywords:
Cavity QED, Ultrastrong Coupling, Two-Photon Correlation Function
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413623
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Luigi Garziano
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Alessandro Ridolfo
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Salvatore Savasta
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