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Collective operator method for the resonance fluorescence in photonic band gap

Dmitri S. Mogilevtsev, S. Ya. Kilin

Published Jan 1, 2003• 0 citations

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this work we suggest and discuss the method of collective atomic-field operators for the resonance fluorescence of two-level atom with the transition frequency near the band gap edge. The method is based on the formal diagonalization of the interaction Hamiltonian in the absence of driving. In the absence of driving the method also allows to obtain the exact solution for the case when there are two photons in the field. We show that due to closeness to the gap edge the collective operators are weakly coupled. This allows to develop an effective approximation applicable when the problem is strongly non-Markovian, i.e. when in the absence of driving the effect of "freezing" of upper-level atomic population takes place. Then the dynamics of all but one collective operators becomes similar to the bosonic one. Only the dynamics of this one collective operators is nonlinear. We show that in this case a perturbation theory could be developed using as a small parameter a respective coupling strength between this one collective operator and others. In fact, the method of collective operators gives possibility to develop a perturbation theory "tailored" especially for the essentially non-Markovian problem. We derive a condition of applicability for this theory. Essentially, it is the condition of weak excitation of all collective atom-field "modes" corresponding to the collective operators with dynamics similar to the bosonic one. For the moderate intensities of the driving field even an approximation of independent collective operators gives good results. In the limit of weak driving field a simple analytic approximation is developed. As comparison shows, this approximation allows to describe a basic features of atomic population dynamics even for the cases when the driving field could not any more be considered weak.

DOI: 10.1109/eqec.2003.1314226

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We discuss a point model for the collective emission of light from

N

two-level atoms in a photonic band-gap material, each with an atomic resonant frequency near the edge of the gap. In the limit of a low initial occupation of the excited atomic state, our system is shown to possess atomic spectra and population statistics that are radically different from free space. For a high initial excited-state population, mean-field theory suggests a fractionalized inversion and a macroscopic polarization for the atoms in the steady state, both of which can be controlled by an external dc field. This atomic steady state is accompanied by a nonzero expectation value of the electric field operators for field modes located in the vicinity of the atoms. The nature of homogeneous broadening near the band edge is shown to differ markedly from that in free space due to non-Markovian memory effects in the radiation dynamics. Non-Markovian vacuum fluctuations are shown to yield a partially coherent steady-state polarization with a random phase. In contrast with the steady state of a conventional laser, near a photonic band edge this coherence occurs as a consequence of photon localization in the absence of a conventional cavity mode. We also introduce a classical stochastic function with the same temporal correlations as the electromagnetic reservoir, in order to stochastically simulate the effects of vacuum fluctuations near a photonic band edge.

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