Photon Bunching and Antibunching

Malvin Carl Teich, Bahaa E. A. Saleh

Jan Mostowski, Kazimierz Rza̧żewski

Xin H. H. Zhang, Harold U. Baranger

Zhuo‐Liang Cao

By means of solving Schrdinger equation and numerical calculations,photon bunching and antibunching effect in the system of the two-mode entangled coherent states interacting with a moving V-type three-level atom is investigated.The results indicate that the effect of photon bunching and antibunching in the system intensively depend on mean photon numbers of the two-mode entangled coherent states and the speed of the atom.For a special mean photon number,the velocity of atom will afftect the effect of photon bunching and antibunching intensively.For those relatively large mean photon numbers,the initial state of the atom and the degree of entanglement of the two-mode entangled coherent states have no influences on the effect of photon bunching and antibunching.For those relatively small mean photon numbers,the initial state of the atom and the degree of entanglement of the two-mode entangled coherent states only have slight influences on the effect of photon bunching and antibunching.

R. Loudon

Antibunching of photons is one of the few phenomena which can only be explained in terms of the quantum theory of light. Rodney Loudon describes this effect, and its more widely known counterpart, photon bunching

P. L. Knight