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arXiv:2411.14204 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Exact solution for a class of quantum models of interacting bosons

V. S. Shchesnovich

Published Mar 6, 2025• 2 citations
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Abstract

Abstract Quantum models of interacting bosons have a wide range of applications, including the propagation of optical modes in nonlinear media, such as the k-photon down-conversion. Many of these models are related to nonlinear deformations of finite group algebras and, in this sense, are exactly solvable. While advanced group-theoretic methods were developed to study the eigenvalue spectrum, in quantum optics, the primary focus is not on the spectrum of the Hamiltonian but rather on the evolution of an initial state—such as the generation of optical signal modes by a strong pump mode propagating through a nonlinear medium. I propose a simple and general method to solve the state evolution problem, applicable to a broad class of quantum models of interacting bosons. For the k-photon down-conversion model and its generalizations, the solution to the state evolution problem is expressed as an infinite series expansion in powers of the propagation time, with coefficients determined by a recursion relation involving only a single polynomial function. This polynomial function is unique to each nonlinear model. As an application, I compare the exact solution of the parametric down-conversion process with the semiclassical parametric approximation.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8121/adbd9c

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We use the methods of constructions of and deformed coherent states in order to construct the coherent states for down conversion processes. The down conversion process can be understood as a quasi-exactly solvable model of quantum mechanics. After the reduction of the Hamiltonian, we use the Turbiner polynomials approach, and the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian for low number of photons are calculated and the approximation formula is found out. After the discussion on the time evolution and the entanglement, the coherent states are constructed as the eigenstates of the reduced annihilation operator.
This thesis presents a study of photon generation and conversion processes in nonlinear optics. Our results extend beyond the first order perturbative regime, in which only pairs of photons are generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion or four wave mixing. They also allow us to identify the limiting factors for achieving unit efficiency frequency conversion, and to correctly account for the propagation of bright nonclassical photon states generated in the nonlinear material. This is done using the Magnus expansion, which allows us to incorporate corrections due to time-ordering effects in the time evolution of the state, while also respecting the quantum statistics associated with squeezed states (in photon generation) and single photons or coherent states (in photon conversion). We show more generally that this expansion should be the preferred strategy when dealing with any type of time-dependent Hamiltonian that is a quadratic form in the creation and annihilation operators of the fields involved. Using the Magnus expansion, simple figures of merit to estimate the relevance of these time-ordering corrections are obtained. These quantities depend on the group velocities of the modes involved in the nonlinear process and provide a very simple physical picture of the interactions between the photons at different times. These time-ordering effects are shown to be important only when the photons and pump beam overlap within the nonlinear material for a significant amount of time. We also discuss the possibility of preparing Fock states with many photons using parametric down-conversion sources and realistic photon-number-resolving detectors. After discussing photon generation processes, we study photon conversion processes in which a nonlinear material and a classical strong pump field are used modify the frequency of a second incoming low-intensity field. We show that time-ordering effects limit the efficiency of this conversion process, re-examine strategies to get around this problem, and show that it should be possible to have a clear observation of modified upconversion probabilities due to these effects, and thus have an experimental demonstration of time-ordering effects in nonlinear optics.
Abstract Recent experimental progress in monitoring the dynamics of ultracold gases in optical lattices necessitates a quantitative theoretical description for a significant number of bosons. In the present paper, we investigate if time-dependent semiclassical initial value methodology, with propagators expressed as integrals over phase space and using classical trajectories, is suitable to describe interacting bosons, concentrating on a single mode. Despite the nonlinear contribution from the self-interaction, the corresponding classical dynamics allows for a largely analytical treatment of the semiclassical propagator. We find that application of the Herman–Kluk (HK) propagator conserves unitarity in the semiclassical limit, but a decay of the norm is seen for low particle numbers n . The frozen Gaussian approximation (FGA) (HK with unit prefactor) is explicitly shown to violate unitarity in the present system for non-vanishing interaction strength, even in the semiclassical limit. Furthermore, we show by evaluating the phase space integral in steepest descent approximation, that the HK propagator reproduces the exact spectrum correctly in the semiclassical limit ( ). An error is, however, incurred in next-to-next-to-leading order (small parameter ), as seen upon numerical evaluation of the integral and confirmed analytically by considering finite n corrections to the steepest descent calculations. The FGA, in contrast, is only accurate to lowest order, and an erroneous next-to-leading order term in the energy spectrum was found analytically. Finally, as an example application, we study the dynamics of wave packets by computing the time evolution of the Wigner function. While the often-used truncated Wigner approximation cannot capture any interferences present in the exact quantum mechanical solution (known analytically), we find that the HK approach, despite also using classical information only, reproduces the salient features of the exact solution correctly.
We develop some calculation schemes to determine dynamics of a wide class of integrable quantum-optical models using their symmetry adapted reformulation in terms of polynomial Lie algebras supd(2)su_{pd}(2)supd​(2). These schemes, based on "diagonal" representations of model evolution operators (via diagonalizing Hamiltonians with the help of the supd(2)su_{pd}(2)supd​(2) defining relations), are implemented in the form adapted for numerical calculations. Their efficiency is demonstrated on the example of the second-harmonic-generation model.