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Photon condensation and its phase diffusion

Longhua Jiang, Jinwu Ye, Jing Zhang, Tiancai Zhang, Cunlin Zhang

Published Dec 10, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

Recently, several experiments successfully achieved the strong coupling of a BEC of $ N \sim 10^{5} $ $ ^{87}Rb $ atoms to the photons inside an ultrahigh-finesse optical cavity. The strong coupling regime was also achieved with artificial atoms such as superconducting qubits inside micro-wave circuit cavity. These systems are described by the Dicke model where a single mode of photons coupled to an assembly of $ N $ atoms with the same coupling strength $ g $. In this paper, by solving the Dicke model by $ 1/ N $ expansion, we show that at the thermodynamic limit $ N = \infty $, one can achieve the Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of the cavity photons at sufficiently strong coupling $ g $. At a finite $ N $, we identify an emergent quantum phase diffusion mode inside the BEC phase and also work out many remarkable experimental consequences of this mode such as its low frequency, photon number squeezing properties and photon statistics. The photons from the BEC phase are in a number squeezed state with much enhanced signal/noise ratio which may have wide applications in the field of high resolution, high sensitive measurement and also in quantum information processing. The effects of dissipations due to leaking photons out of the cavity are also briefly discussed. The difference with a Laser beam is stressed. Several experimental schemes to realize the BEC of the photons and detect the phase diffusion mode are proposed.

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The Dicke model was proposed by Dicke in 1954 to describe a single mode of photon coupled to an assembly of N atoms with the same strength. It was found that there is a quantum phase transition from a normal phase at weak coupling to a super-radiant phase at strong coupling at the thermodynamic limit N =∞. Here, we solve the model at N ≥ 1 and also discuss its possible experimental implementations inside a cavity. By studying the Dicke model by 1/N expansion, we identify an emergent quantum phase diffusion mode inside the super-radiant phase and also work out many remarkable experimental consequences of this mode such as its low frequency, photon number squeezing properties and photon statistics. The energy of the phase diffusion modecan be continuously tuned into many frequency ranges from Micro-wave to Terahertz (THz) to Infra-red. The photons from the super-radiant phase are in a number squeezed state with much enhanced signal/noise ratio which may have wide applications in quantum information processing. The photon statistics is strong sub-Poissonian. The effects of dissipations due to leaking photons out of the cavity are also discussed. The connections with the recent experiments of the strong coupling of a BEC of N ~ 105 87Rb atoms to the photons inside an ultrahigh-finess optical cavity are carefully analyzed. Several experimental schemes to detect the phase diffusion mode are proposed.
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