Entanglement of electronic states of impurities in a nanocrystal

It is shown that the dynamics of electronic states of impurities in a nanocrystal embedded in a bulk matrix can be described with the help of the model of a single-mode microcavity with quasi-resonant atoms and losses at the mirrors. In the proposed model, the dynamics of impurities is similar to the collective decay of atoms in a common bath. In the case of a nanocrystal, matrix phonons represent this bath. Impurities interact with the localized phonon mode of the nanocrystal owing to the electron-phonon interaction. The localized phonon mode is coupled with bath phonons at the nanocrystal boundary. In the dispersive limit, the standard model of collective relaxation appears, within the framework of which, different types of many-particle entangled electronic states of impurities are described. In the case of exact resonance, similar entangled states also appear, which are discussed for two impurities in a nanocrystal.     

Minimal Photon Velocity Bounds in Non-relativistic Quantum Electrodynamics

We consider non-relativistic quantum particle systems, such as atoms and molecules, coupled to the quantized electromagnetic field. We prove several photon velocity bounds for total energies below the ionization threshold. We also consider phonons coupled to such particle systems and prove velocity bounds for them as well.     

Coherent population transfer in a chain of tunnel coupled quantum dots

We consider the dynamics of a single electron in a chain of tunnel coupled quantum dots, exploring the formal analogies of this system with some of the laser-driven multilevel atomic or molecular systems studied by Bruce W. Shore and collaborators over the last 30 years. In particular, we describe two regimes for achieving complete coherent transfer of population in such a multistate system. In the first regime, by carefully arranging the coupling strengths, the flow of population between the states of the system can be made periodic in time. In the second regime, by employing a “counterintuitive” sequence of couplings, the coherent population trapping eigenstate of the system can be rotated from the initial to the final desired state, which is an equivalent of the STIRAP technique for atoms or molecules. Our results may be useful in future quantum computation schemes.     

3D dissipative motion of atoms in a strongly coupled driven cavity

We develop quantum models for the combined external and internal motion of atoms in a strongly coupled driven cavity mode including the transverse degrees of freedom. Using a simplified Gaussian mode function we determine the parameter regimes and prospects of 3D cooling and confinement of one or two atoms in the cavity field. Analysing the field dynamics for slow atoms traversing the cavity, we show that the spectrum of the transmitted and spontaneously scattered light contains ample information on the motional dynamics of the atom and can be nicely used to investigate the cooling properties of the system. Including several atoms in the dynamics we show how motional correlations build up by the common interaction with the cavity field. This can be looked upon as collisions at far distance and can be monitored via the transmitted field dynamics. Received 5 March 1999 and Received in final form 4 May 1999     

Coupled plasmon and phonon dynamics in embedded Na clusters

We investigate, from a theoretical perspective, the coupled electronic and ionic/atomic dynamics of Na clusters embedded in Ar matrices. The system is described by time-dependent density-functional theory for cluster electrons and classical motion for Na⁺ ions as well as for Ar atoms. The interaction with the surrounding Ar atoms is modelled by polarization potentials plus core repulsion. We use this model to study coupled electronic and ionic/atomic motion in embedded clusters following a very short laser pulse. For excitations in the non-linear regime, we find clear signs for the coherent coupling of the Mie plasmon resonance with ionic vibrations (phonons). In addition, an incoherent line stretching is observed which can be traced back to the turning point of ionic vibrations. The coupling to the atomic motion of the surroundings leads to a slow and far reaching rearrangement of the matrix. PACS 36.40.Gk; 36.40.Vz; 31.15.EW     

原子与耦合腔相互作用系统中的量子失协

本文研究由两个全同的二能级原子和耦合腔构成的系统,利用Dakic等提出的几何量子失协的度量方法,采用数值计算方法计算了系统中两原子间和两腔场间量子失协的演化.讨论了原子间初始纠缠度和腔场间耦合系数变化对几何量子失协演化的影响.研究发现:随腔场间耦合系数的增大,量子失协周期性演化的频率增大;随原子间初始纠缠度的增大,两原子间的关联增强,两腔场间的关联减弱.     

多能级原子系统暗压缩态的制备

基于二能级原子暗压缩态的制备方案，对多能级原子系统暗压缩态的产生机理进行研究，并提出一个如何在多能级原子系统中制备压缩态的方案。结果表明，在Lamb—Dicke近似下，考虑边带冷却效应就可以将多能级原子冷却至最低最子态；通过选择合适的入射光中心频率，利用多能级原子系统同样可以激光冷却被俘获的原子，并导致暗压缩态的出现。     

Generation of coherent phonons in opaque crystals: A radio engineering analogy

A model is proposed for generating coherent phonons by ultrashort laser pulses in opaque crystals. The model is based on the radio engineering analogy with two coupled RLC circuits, of which the first circuit corresponds to the electronic subsystem of the crystal and the second circuit corresponds to the lattice sub-system. It is demonstrated that this analogy makes it possible to describe a number of characteristic properties of coherent phonons and facilitates the separation of the contributions from the nonequilibrium charge carriers and the coherent lattice dynamics to the time-resolved reflection signal in opaque crystals.     

Moving bright solitons in a pseudo-spin polarization Bose-Einstein condensate

We study the moving bright solitons in the weak attractive Bose–Einstein condensate with a spin–orbit interaction. By solving the coupled nonlinear Schr ?dinger equation with the variational method and the imaginary time evolution method,two kinds of solitons(plane wave soliton and stripe solitons) are found in different parameter regions. It is shown that the soliton speed dominates its structure. The detuning between the Raman beam and energy states of the atoms decides the spin polarization strength of the system. The soliton dynamics is also studied for various moving speed and we find that the shape of individual components can be kept when the speed of soliton is low.     

On Algebraic Integrability of the Deformed Elliptic Calogero-Moser Problem

Abstract

We discuss stationary solutions of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation (DNSE) with a potential of the ? ⁴ type which is generically applicable to several quantum spin, electron and classical lattice systems. We show that there may arise chaotic spatial structures in the form of incommensurate or irregular quantum states. As a first (typical) example we consider a single electron which is strongly coupled with phonons on a 1D chain of atoms — the (Rashba)–Holstein polaron model. In the adiabatic approximation this system is conventionally described by the DNSE. Another relevant example is that of superconducting states in layered superconductors described by the same DNSE. Amongst many other applications the typical example for a classical lattice is a system of coupled nonlinear oscillators. We present the exact energy spectrum of this model in the strong coupling limit and the corresponding wave function. Using this as a starting point we go on to calculate the wave function for moderate coupling and find that the energy eigenvalue of these structures of the wave function is in exquisite agreement with the exact strong coupling result. This procedure allows us to obtain (numerically) exact solutions of the DNSE directly. When applied to our typical example we find that the wave function of an electron on a deformable lattice (and other quantum or classical discrete systems) may exhibit incommensurate and irregular structures. These states are analogous to the periodic, quasiperiodic and chaotic structures found in classical chaotic dynamics.     

Controlled entanglement of two atoms in photonic crystals

The exact entanglement dynamics of two dipole-dipole interacting two-level atoms coupled to a common photonic band-gap (PBG) environment has been investigated. We show that the detuning conditions and the dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) are two essential ingredients and their interplay plays a crucial role in controlling the entanglement of the two-qubit system. For the negative detuning, corresponding to the case where the atomic transition frequency is inside the band gap, the entanglement of the two-qubit system can survive in the long-time limit. For the positive detuning, although the fast disentanglement presents, the DDI effects can be used to fight against the deterioration of the entanglement. The theoretical results could be applied to the implementation of quantum information processing in nanostructured materials.     

Theorie des stimulierten Raman-Effekts

We consider stimulated Raman emission in solids, placed in a plane laser beam external to the cavity. The Hamiltonian of the system of phonons, electrons and electromagnetic fields is derived within the framework of a generalized adiabatic approximation for electrons and nuclei. It contains terms due to nonlinear interactions between electrons and phonons. Because the usual time-dependent perturbation theory cannot describe coherence effects properly we turn toHeisenberg's equations of motion for the operators of photons, phonons and electron excitations. In order to solve these equations in the steady state we apply an iteration procedure. We start with the light waves which give rise to electron transitions. The electrons such excited create phonons which then react on the electrons. Finally the electrons are coupled again to the lightfield. This procedure yields besides the usual wellknown Raman process two main processes occurring in stimulated Raman emission: a coupled two step Raman process and a parametric process. In the first one two phonons are involved. If the linewidth of phonons is comparable to the phonon frequencies the non-resonant parts of the above processes also become important. In solving the set of coupled equations for the light amplitudes, obtained from the iteration procedure, we only consider terms due to the first Stokes, the first anti-Stokes and the laser line. We then find frequency shifts of these lines due to the stimulated emission which are of the order of the linewidth of photons if this linewidth is very much smaller than that of phonons as it is the case in solids. This means that the coupled two step Raman process is dominant, in good agreement with measurements ofChiao andStoicheff in calcite.     

Emission Spectrum of Two Atoms in Two-mode Multiphoton Raman Coupled Model

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Properties of nonadiabatic quantum fluctuations of the strongly coupled electron-phonon systems

A new variational-ansatz of states of electrons and phonons was proposed on the basis of the Holstein model in strongly coupled electron-phonon systems for studying the influence of nonadiabatic phonon fluctuation, arising from the motion and density fluctuation of electrons, on the properties of ground state, uncertainty relation, stability of polarons, charge density wave (CDW) and phonon staggered ordering. The new ansatz represents the correlation among the displacement and squeezing states of phonons and polaron’s state of electrons as well as the squeezing-antisqueezing effect. The correlation and squeezing-antisqueezing effect result in the decrease of ground state energy, enhancement of stability of the systems, increase of binding energy of the polarons, weakening of the growing speed of polaron narrowing of the electron band, increase of the charge density wave order and suppression of the increased tendency of anomalous quantum fluctuation of the phonons in such a case, when compared with the uncorrelated case in the systems. The results obtained show that the ground state determined by the new state ansatz is most stable, thus the new ansatz describing the properties of the coupled electron phonon systems is very relevant and available, especially in strongly coupled and largely squeezed cases. Supported by the National “973” Project of China (Grant No. 2007CB6103)     

The effects of different doping patterns on the lattice thermal conductivity of solid Ar

In order to investigate the effects of doping patterns on phonon transport, equilibrium molecular dynamics method is performed to calculate the lattice thermal conductivity of solid argon doped with krypton atoms in different geometrical distribution modes. Four different patterns are introduced through replacing Ar atoms with the same amount of Kr atoms in different volume and positions. The simulation results demonstrate that the impurity volume and distribution have significant effects on phonon transport in a crystal structure. The lowest thermal conductivity among the four doping patterns is achieved by introducing the impurity in a nanometer size cubic pattern distributed in the Ar matrix, which is roughly two times lower than that of pure argon at 17 K. The impurity strength on phonons is estimated through comparing the simulation results with those calculated from the Callaway model.     

Entanglement Dynamics of Two V-type Atoms with Dipole–Dipole Interaction in Dissipative Cavity

In this work, a coupled system of two V-type atoms with dipole–dipole interaction in a dissipative single-mode cavity, which couples with an external environment, is studied. The analytical solution of this model is obtained by solving the time dependent Schrodinger equation after Hamiltonian of dissipative cavity is diagonalized by introducing a set of new creation and annihilation operators according to Fano theorem. It is also discussed in detail how the entanglement dynamics of different initial states are influenced by the cavity-environment coupling, the spontaneously generated interference (SGI) parameter, and the dipole–dipole interaction between two atoms . The results show that the SGI parameter has different effects on entanglement dynamics under different initial states. Namely, the SGI parameter will increase the decay rate of the initially maximal entangled state and reduce that of the initially partial entangled state. For the initially product state, the larger SGI parameter corresponds to the more entanglement generated. The entanglement monotonically decreases under the weak cavity-environment coupling, while the oscillation of entanglement will occur under the strong cavity-environment coupling. The larger the dipole–dipole interaction is, the slower the entanglement decays and the more the entanglement will be generated. So the dipole–dipole interaction can not only protect and generate entanglement very effectively, but also enhance the regulation effect of the SGI parameter on entanglement.     

Effects of squeezing-antisqueezing in strongly coupled electron–phonon systems

The effects of squeezing-antisqueezing resulting from the motion and density fluctuation of the electrons on the properties of both electrons and phonons have been studied by using a new variational ansatz with correlated displacement and squeezing in strongly coupled electron–phonon systems. The effects results in (1) reduction of the ground state energy, and enhancement of stability of the systems, (2) increase of the binding energy of the polaron occurred and weakening of growing speed of polaron narrowing of electron band, (3) increase of the charge density wave order and (4) suppression of increased tendency of anomalous quantum fluctuation of the phonons in the systems. The antisqueezed effect plays an important role in determining the properties of the electrons and phonons in the strongly coupled electron–phonon systems.     

Magnon-phonon interaction in the one dimensional quantum XY model

In this paper, we study the phonon dynamics of the one dimensional quantum XY model coupled to phonons, using two different approaches: a low temperature approximation for the memory function, and the perturbation expansion in the Green function formalism. We show that at least to the lowest order in the calculation, both methods give the same result for the dynamic phonon correlation function.     

近周期超晶格中的声学声子及其光散射特性

利用转移矩阵方法计算了近周期超晶格体系（包括有限周期数的超晶格、耦合超晶格、层厚起伏和层厚渐变的超晶格）中声学声子的喇曼散射谱．结果表明上述近周期超晶格的光散射特性与理想严格周期的体系和完全无序的体系都不相同，呈现出许多独特的性质．对有限周期数的超晶格，由于边界的存在，喇曼谱中除了理想超晶格中存在的折叠声学声子峰（主峰）外，还会出现一系列等间距分布的卫星峰．对耦合超晶格体系，理想超晶格中存在的主峰将出现分裂．对层厚起伏变化的超晶格，主峰呈现非对称展宽，展宽主要出现在高波数端．计算结果和实验测得的谱线作了比 关键词：