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Quantum model for continuous photodetection

Salomon Sylvain Mizrahi, Alexandre V. Dodonov, V. V. Dodonov, Niklaus Ursus Wetter, Jaime Frejlich

Published Jan 1, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

We examine some aspects of the continuous photodetection model for photocounting processes in cavities. We work out a microscopic model that describes the field‐detector interaction and deduce a general expression for the Quantum Jump Superoperator (QJS), that shapes the detector's post‐action on the field upon a detection. We show that in particular cases our model recovers the QJSs previously proposed ad hoc in the literature and point out that by adjusting the detector parameters one can engineer QJSs.

DOI
10.1063/1.2926839

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