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Physical Review A

Resonance fluorescence of a two-level atom in a colored vacuum

Hyunchul Nha, Young-Tak Chough, Kyungwon An

Published Jul 17, 2000• 8 citations
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Abstract

Resonance fluorescence of a driven Jaynes-Cummings system is studied theoretically when the cavity is driven by a classical field of arbitrary strength. In the regime of strong atom-cavity coupling, there occur anomalous resonance peaks at $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\sqrt{2}{g}^{\ensuremath{'}},\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\sqrt{3}{g}^{\ensuremath{'}},$ etc., with the modified vacuum Rabi frequency ${g}^{\ensuremath{'}}.$ These new peaks and the observed shift of the vacuum Rabi splitting are to be explained in the language of the quasienergy levels induced dynamically by the strong driving field. In the presence of significant damping the spectrum reflects the photon-number distribution inside the cavity, and particularly, a bimodality of the distribution results in a unique quintuplet resonance fluorescence spectrum.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.62.021801

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Spectra of the atomic resonance fluorescence and of the cavity-transmitted light in a driven Jaynes-Cummings system are studied theoretically, where the cavity is driven by a classical field of arbitrary strength. In the regime of strong atom-cavity coupling, anomalous resonance peaks occur at $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}\sqrt{n}{g}^{\ensuremath{'}} (n=2,3,\dots{}),$ with the modified vacuum Rabi frequency ${g}^{\ensuremath{'}},$ both in the atomic fluorescence and the cavity transmission. These peaks as well as the observed shift of the vacuum Rabi splitting are explained in terms of the quasienergy levels induced dynamically by the strong driving field. For a stronger driving field, it is shown that the spectrum of the cavity transmission deviates from that of the atomic fluorescence. In the presence of significant damping, the spectrum of the cavity transmission approaches a singlet structure in the strong driving-field limit, and it is found additionally that a bimodal photon-number distribution, which results in a unique quintuplet spectrum of the atomic fluorescence, does not show up in the cavity transmission.
The spectrum of the resonance fluorescence light from a single two-level atom in a small, high-quality, optical cavity is calculated. The coupling between the atom and cavity is made sufficiently strong compared to the dissipation that single quantum frequency splitting (vacuum Rabi splitting) occurs. Under high excitation qualitatively new fluorescent spectra are predicted. The usual three-peaked resonance fluorescence spectrum now has sidebands whose width is given by the Jaynes-Cummings atom-cavity coupling coefficient rather than by the system dissipation.
The standard theory of resonance fluorescence is a weak-coupling theory.1 If n ¯ is the mean photon number for the driving field, g is the atom field coupling constant, and γ is the Einstein A coefficient, formally the standard theory of resonance fluorescence assumes the limit n ¯ → ∞ , g/ γ → 0, with the ratio of Rabi frequency to atomic linewidth 2 n ¯ n g / γ finite. The limit g/γ → 0 allows the variation of the Rabi frequency 2 n g across the photon number distribution of the driving field to be neglected. By placing the atom inside an optical cavity the ratio g/γ can be changed. In this paper we calculate spectra for intracavity resonance fluorescence in the strong-coupling limit g/γ ≫ 1, g/κ ≫ 1, where κ is the cavity linewidth. We consider a single two-level atom interacting on resonance with a single cavity mode driven by a resonant coherent field. The cavity subtends a small solid angle at the atom, so that the spontaneous emission into free-space modes is not negligible. We calculate the spectrum of the light transmitted by the cavity (the transmitted spectrum) and the spectrum of the light radiated by the atom into free space (the fluorescent spectrum). The transmitted and fluorescent spectra show fundamental differences from the (weak-coupling) spectrum of free-space resonance fluorescence.
The dynamics of a strongly driven two-level atom are examined for the case that the atom is coupled to a ``two-mode'' squeezed vacuum. The source of squeezed light is taken to be a (frequency) nondegenerate parametric oscillator. We consider the situation in which the Rabi sidebands produced by the coherent driving field coincide with the spectral peaks of the parametric oscillator. Approximate analytical results are presented and checked against numerical simulations of the exact equations. For a suitable choice of relative phase, all three spectral lines in the fluorescence triplet are found to exhibit subnatural linewidths. Significant modifications to the fluorescence spectrum are also possible with a nonzero laser-atom detuning.
We report an experimental demonstration of resonance fluorescence in a two-level superconducting artificial atom under two driving fields coupled to a detuned cavity. One of the fields is classical and the other is varied from quantum (vacuum fluctuations) to classical by controlling the photon number inside the cavity. The device consists of a transmon qubit strongly coupled to a one-dimensional transmission line and a coplanar waveguide resonator. We observe a sideband anticrossing and asymmetry in the emission spectra of the system through a one-dimensional transmission line, which is fundamentally different from the weak-coupling case. By changing the photon number inside the cavity, the emission spectrum of our doubly driven system approaches the case when the atom is driven by two classical bichromatic fields. We also measure the dynamical evolution of the system through the transmission line and study the properties of the first-order correlation function, Rabi oscillations, and energy relaxation in the system. The study of resonance fluorescence from an atom driven by two fields promotes understanding decoherence in superconducting quantum circuits and may find applications in superconducting quantum computing and quantum networks. Published by the American Physical Society 2024
Resonance-fluorescence power spectrum of two-level atoms driven by a strong monochromatic laser field is discussed, taking into account effects due to the dipole-dipole interaction between the atoms. For two atoms confined to a region smaller than the wavelength of the driving field, we predict significant deviations of the power spectrum from the single-atom case. The two-atom spectrum is nonsymmetric, the wing peaks are shifted from their Rabi-frequency positions, and additional maxima may appear.