We review a non-resonant Jaynes-Cummings system where the two-state atom is driven by an external field of arbitrary frequency. We identify the multiphoton resonances in the Jaynes-Cummings Ladder (JCL) system, and thereby explain all the “resonance” peaks at far-off resonant frequencies.
We study analytically and numerically the properties of the Jaynes-Cummings model under monochromatic driving. The analytical results allow us to understand the regime of two branches of multiphoton excitation in the case of close resonance between resonator and driven frequencies. The rotating wave approximation allows us to reduce the description of the original driven model to an effective Jaynes-Cummings model with strong coupling between photons and qubit. The analytical results are in good agreement with the numerical ones even if there are certain deviations between the theory and numerics in the close vicinity of the resonance. We argue that the rich properties of the driven Jaynes-Cummings model represent a new area for experimental investigations with superconducting qubits and other systems.
Abstract We find that the phase-space representation of the electromagnetic field inside a driven cavity strongly coupled to a two-level atom can be employed to distinguish photon emissions along a ladder of dressed states sustaining a two-photon resonance. The emissions are told apart by means of the different quantum beats generated by the conditional states they prepare. Sample quantum trajectories explicitly reveal the difference in the transient due to the initial condition, in a background set by the Jaynes–Cummings spectrum and revealed by the strong-coupling limit. Their ensemble-averaged evolution is tracked for a time period similar to that waited for the loss of a next photon as the maximum non-exclusive probability, indicated by the peak of the intensity correlation function.
The response of the Jaynes--Cummings (JC) model to strong driving has been examined previously, but the origin of intriguing features near emitter--cavity resonance remains poorly understood because of the large background in conventional transmission spectroscopy. Here we introduce a spectroscopic approach for circuit quantum electrodynamics that combines strong cavity driving with quantum-nondemolition qubit readout. Separating the drive and readout substantially enhances the measurement sensitivity as compared with conventional cavity-transmission spectroscopy. With this technique, we identify the near-resonant features as multiphoton transitions between emitter--photon dressed states of the same parity, and resolve transitions between dressed states of opposite parity. Away from resonance, we also observe selective enhancement and suppression of multiphoton transitions, together with transitions involving the second excited state of the anharmonic qubit. Our approach opens a route to resolving the rich transition structure of the JC ladder and probing strongly driven light--matter interactions.