arXiv:2004.11945 · Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
Nonlinear effects on the dynamics of quantum harmonic modes coupled through angular momentum
N. Canosa, R. Rossignoli, Javier Gonzalo Garcia, Swapan Mandal, Kartick Chandra Saha
Abstract
Abstract We investigate nonlinear effects on the dynamics of entanglement and other quantum observables in a system of two harmonic modes coupled through angular momentum. The nonlinearity arises from a Kerr-type anharmonic term in each mode. The emergence and evolution of entanglement, non-Gaussianity, photon number, photon antibunching and squeezing are examined for different initial coherent product states and couplings, through exact diagonalization in a truncated basis. It is shown that the anharmonic terms, even if weak, can lead to very significant effects for such initial states, considerably enhancing and stabilizing entanglement and leading to a non negligible non-Gaussianity of the evolved states. They also affect other observables, stabilizing the dynamics after an initial transient regime, for not too small initial average populations of each mode. Analytic short-time approximate expressions are also provided.