We study the effect of the intermode coupling in the generation of coherence when two bosonic modes are bilinearly coupled. We consider the case for which the two modes are weakly coupled and the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) applies and the case for which they are strongly coupled and the RWA does not apply. Then, in the regime of validity of the RWA, there is no coherence generation solely due to squeezing effects, which means there is an exchange of excitation between the modes and negligible squeezing. On the other hand, if the two modes are strongly coupled coherence is generated by the squeezing interaction. For the system of two bosonic modes weakly coupled with a Markovian bath at temperature
T the coherence decreases with
T. In general, when both kinds of couplings (exchange of excitation and squeezing) are turned on the exchange of excitation contributes to generating more coherence in comparison with a purely squeezing coupling. Thus, the coherence decreases more slowly with the temperature when both couplings are present. Finally, we explore the case when only one of the two coupled modes interacts with a Markovian bath while the other one remains free from the environment. We observe that the intermode coupling induces oscillations in the coherence and fidelity dynamics similar to the behavior for the coupling with a non-Markovian environment.
We investigate the conditions which affect the destruction of squeezing of a two-mode vacuum squeezed state under interaction with two two-level atoms in two coupled microcavities. Squeezing is found to be preserved considerably longer when the two modes are more strongly coupled and also if the atoms are initially in the ground state. The main qualitative features of our numerical calculation can be understood analytically by using a simplified Hamiltonian where the Pauli spin operators have been replaced by harmonic oscillator operators. We also give brief details of how such a microcavity coupling could arise between two localized defect modes within a photonic bandgap structure.
Abstract We study the cross-correlation between two bosonic modes of a two-mode displaced squeezed thermal state. By calculating the equal-time second-order cross-correlation function, we find that strong anticorrelation between the two bosonic modes can be observed. The mechanism of anticorrelation between the two bosonic modes is the interference between two coherent displacements and a squeeze operation. The optimal values of the two displacements and the squeezing parameter for achieving the minimum value of g ab ( 2 ) ( 0 ) is derived. As an example, we explore the anticorrelation between phonons in a three-mode optomechanical system where two mechanical oscillators are coupled to a single cavity mode. The two-mode displaced squeezed thermal state of the two mechanical oscillators can be achieved if the squeezing amplitude and the mean phonon occupation number of the two mechanical environments are not very large. Furthermore, we find that the two-time second-order correlation function has multiple minima if the frequency difference of the two mechanical oscillators is large. Our results provide us with a tool to generate anticorrelated photons and phonons which may have potential applications in quantum information networks.