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Frontiers of Physics

Evolution law of Wigner function in laser process

Rui He, Junhua Chen, Hong-Yi Fan

Published May 4, 2013• 4 citations
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Abstract

Based on the density operator’s operator-sum representation recently obtained by Fan and Hu for a laser process (Opt. Commun., 2008, 281: 5571; Opt. Commun., 2009, 282: 932; Phys. Lett. B, 2008, 22: 2435), we derive the evolution law of Wigner operator, the law is concisely expressed in the normally ordered form $\Delta (\alpha ,\alpha ^* ,t) = \tfrac{T} {\pi }:\exp [ - 2T(a^\dag e^{ - (\kappa - g)t} - \alpha ^* )(ae^{ - (\kappa - g)t} - \alpha )] $ :, where g and κ are the cavity gain and the loss, respectively, and T ≡ (κ − g)(κ + g − 2ge−2(κ−g)t )−1:, When $t = 0,\Delta (\alpha ,\alpha ^* ,t) \to \tfrac{1} {\pi }:\exp [ - 2(a^\dag - \alpha ^* )(a - \alpha )] $ ;, which is the initial Wigner operator. Using this formalism the evolution law of Wigner functions in laser process can be directly obtained.

DOI
10.1007/s11467-013-0334-8

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Based on the Kraus operator of laser theory which we derived in [2] and by virtue of the technique of integration within ordered product of operators we exactly calculate the evolving result of a chaotic field, governed by the master equation describing the laser process, we find that the initial density operator evolves into a new chaotic field, with where g and κ represent the cavity gain and loss of the laser, respectively. When g = 0, the system reduces to an amplitude dissipative channel, and f' becomes −ln [(e−f − 1) e2κt + 1]. The law of photon number decay in this process is evaluated, and the corresponding Wigner function's evolution is also demonstrated.
We investigate the time evolution of a quantum state in the laser channel with cavity gain coefficient g and loss coefficient κ by virtue of the thermo entangled state representation. This is a new approach for solving master equations. We exactly calculate the evolving result of the photon-added coherent state (PACS) governed by the master equation describing the laser process, and the normal ordered form of the density operator in the laser channel is derived, based on which we calculate the Wigner function analytically and graphically. The corresponding law of the PACS evolution in the laser channel is evaluated.
We investigate systematically the evolution of the number state in a laser process by deriving the analytic expression of the density operator and putting it into a normal ordered form. The eigenvalue of the density operator is related to Jacobi polynomials. Then we derive the expression for the mean photon number, the second degree of coherence, the entropy, Wigner function and the photoncount distribution. The nonclassicality is discussed by virtue of the negativity of Wigner function. It is found that the Wigner function is always negative for t < t0, which is independent on the parameter m. On the other hand, the condition for the second degree of coherence larger than 1 is dependent on the parameter m.
As is well known, the evolution of quantum state can be replaced by its Wigner function’s time evolution. The Wigner function of a quantum state is the same as the density matrix of a quantum state, because they both contain many messages, such as the probability distribution and phases. Thus, the important information about the quantum state in the evolution process can be obtained more quickly and effectively by studying the Wigner function of a quantum state. In this paper, based on the classical diffusion equation, the diffusion equation of the quantum state density operator is derived by using the P representation of the density operator. Furthermore, by introducing the Weyl ordering symbol of the quantum operator, the corresponding Weyl quantization scheme is given. In addition, the evolution equation of Wigner operator in diffusion channel is established by using another phase space representation of density operator—Wigner function, and the solution form of Wigner operator is given. In this paper, we derive the evolution law of Wigner operator in quantum diffusion channel for the first time, that is, the form of Wigner operator at any time in the evolution process. Based on this conclusion, the evolution of coherent states through quantum diffusion channels is discussed.
Using the integration within ordered products, we obtain the analytical density-operator evolution of the general quadratic state ρ 0 in a laser channel, which always maintains the same form as the initial density operator ρ 0. Introducing the differential representation of the von-Neumann entropy and two important resemble formulas, we analytically and numerically investigate the entropy evolution of the state ρ 0 in a laser channel, which is determined by not only the competition of the gain and loss of the laser channel, but also the coefficients α, β of the initial quadratic state ρ 0.