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Statistical Mixture of Kaleidoscope States Interacting with a Two-Level Atom: Entropy and Purification

Jorge Andres Anaya-Contreras, Arturo Zúñiga-Segundo, H. M. Moya-Cessa

Published Jan 31, 2023• 1 citation
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Abstract

We investigate some of the fundamental features of the interaction of a mixture of coherent states, namely, a Kaleidoscope states mixture, with two-level atoms in the Jaynes–Cummings model framework. We begin our analysis by calculating the von Neumann entropy of the field, which is determined with the help of the virtual atom method. The oscillations appearing in the entropy indicate a state of purity greater than the initial state, i.e., a purification of the initial state due to a transfer of coherence from the atom to the field. In this oscillatory region, we obtain a negative Wigner function that hints at a (noisy) multiple Schrödinger cat.

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10.3390/photonics10020150

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