A semiclassical approach to dissipative cavity electrodynamical systems

Harry J. Kimble, Mark G. Raizen, Robert J. Thompson +3 more

Warwick P. Bowen

Anonymous, Tatsuro Yuge

G. S. Agarwal, Ravinder Rupchand Puri

Field quantization effects in cavity electrodynamics can be isolated by sending through the cavity those atoms prepared initially in semiclassical dressed states. Under such initial conditions the fully quantized theory predicts irregular evolution, whereas the semiclassical and neoclassical theories predict, respectively, no dynamical evolution and regular periodic evolution.

Matthew Bradford, Jung‐Tsung Shen

We investigate numerically the architecture dependence of the characteristics of antibunched photons generated in cavity quantum electrodynamic systems. We show that the quality of antibunching [the smallness of the second-order intensity correlation function at zero time ${g}^{(2)}(0)$] and the generation efficiency significantly depend on the configurations: the arrangements of single-mode optical cavities and waveguides. We found that for certain class of architecture, when the Jaynes-Cummings system (the atom-cavity system) couples to two terminated waveguides, there exists a fundamental tradeoff between high transmission and low ${g}^{(2)}(0)$, and is sensitive to dissipation. We further show that optimal antibunching can be achieved in two alternative cavity quantum electrodynamic configurations operating in the dissipatively weak coupling regime such that the two-photon transmission can be two orders of magnitude higher for the same ${g}^{(2)}(0)$.

David S. Simon