The interference of light scattered by two distant nonidentical atoms

The interference property of the fluorescence field from two nonidentical atoms driven by a laser field is investigated. It is found that there are differences for the intensity and the second-order correlation function between the two identical atoms system and the two nonidentical atoms system. It is shown that the intensity and the second-order correlation function have different behaviors under the weak laser field and the strong case for two identical atoms and two nonidentical atoms systems.     

Dynamics of spontaneous radiation of atoms scattered by a resonance standing light wave

The scattering of atoms by a resonance standing light wave is considered under conditions when the lower of two resonance levels is metastable, while the upper level rapidly decays due to mainly spontaneous radiative transitions to the nonresonance levels of an atom. The diffraction scattering regime is studied, when the Rabi frequency is sufficiently high and many diffraction maxima are formed due to scattering. The dynamics of spontaneous radiation of an atom is investigated. It is shown that scattering slows down substantially the radiative decay of the atom. The regions and characteristics of the power and exponential decay are determined. The adiabatic and nonadiabatic scattering regimes are studied. It is shown that the wave packets of atoms in the metastable and resonance excited states narrow down during scattering. A limiting (minimal) size of the wave packets is found, which is achieved upon nonadiabatic scattering in the case of a sufficiently long interaction time.     

Time Evolution of Density Operator for Field Damping in Squeezed Bath Calculated by Squeezing Transformation and Entangled State Representation

We find that a squeezing transformation can efficiently simplify the density operator equation of field damping in a squeezed bath. Then the entangled state representation is introduced to solve the simplified equation and the time evolution of density operator, which turns out to be a mixed coherent squeezed state. Work supported by the President Foundation of Chinese Academy of Science and Specialized research fund for the doctorial progress of Higher Education (SRFDP).     

Squeezing and entanglement of a two-mode field in a four-level tripod atomic system

The interaction of a collection of N four-level tripod configuration atoms with two orthogonally polarized probe fields is investigated. Under the condition of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), we calculate the squeezing and entanglement spectra of the output probe fields. By analyzing the output spectrum, we find that the squeezing and entanglement of the probe fields can be well-preserved after passing through the optically thick medium. Additionally, the effects of the ground state dephasing rates of the atoms on the entanglement and squeezing of the output two-mode squeezed fields are investigated. It is shown that the dephasing rates will degrade the entanglement and squeezing, and these quantum properties can be lost when the dephasing rates increase up to a certain value. This will be useful in the quantum computation and quantum communication.     

Speckle structure of a light field scattered by human eye retina

The speckle structure of a light field resulting from laser radiation scattering by human eye retina is analyzed. The presence of a speckle structure in the radiation scattered by an eye substantially impedes wave-front measurements in the study of aberrations. Two methods for suppressing such a structure based on the spatial and spectral averaging of the realizations of the speckle field are considered. The results of the theoretical calculation and numerical simulation are in agreement with the experimental data.     

相互作用原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体诱导的光场压缩效应

给出了光场与二能级原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)相互作用系统的哈密顿量，研究了原子 间相互作用对压缩相干态光场与原子BEC相互作用系统中光场正交压缩特性的影响.结果表明 ：光场两正交分量的涨落均随时间按余弦规律周期性地变化，其压缩性质依赖于光场的初始 压缩因子和压缩方向角，而原子间的相互作用影响光场正交分量的涨落随时间变化的幅度和 周期. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 压缩相干态 光场的正交压缩     

Plateau effects in the spectra of electrons scattered from atoms in a strong laser field

JETP Letters - An exact quantum solution of the problem of electron scattering from a short-range potential in the presence of a strong elliptically polarized laser field is obtained. The...     

利用置于光腔中的非线性耦合器制备压缩和连续变量纠缠光

利用置于光腔中的非线性耦合器制备了压缩和连续变量纠缠光.通过特征函数方法解析求解了双模腔场满足的主方程.分析发现：在一定的条件下,此系统能产生稳定的双模压缩和连续变量纠缠光,且压缩和纠缠的强度与系统的耦合参量及腔场损耗系数密切相关.     

Squeezing transfer from vibrations to a cavity field in an ion-trap laser

We present a novel way to produce squeezed light in an optical cavity. The main idea is to transfer vibrational squeezing from the motion of a trapped ion to the photons in a cavity. We use the dipolar coupling of the motion of a three-level ion with one cavity mode and two different kind of pumps. The first pump is an oscillating electric field that drives the ion into a vibrational squeezed state. The second pump consists of two lasers resonant with the ionic levels that makes the transfer possible.     

Propagation of light in a structure with a regular magnetic inhomogeneity

The reflection and transmission of a light wave normally incident on a layer with a regular magnetic inhomogeneity described by a harmonic function are investigated. Solutions to the Maxwell equations for such a medium and the Jones matrices determining the magneto-optical characteristics of the structure under consideration (the coefficients of transmission and reflection and the degrees of polarization of transmitted and reflected waves) are obtained.     

一种新的非线性相干态的振幅平方压缩效应

研究了一种新的非线性相干态的振幅平方压缩效应,给出了出现振幅平方压缩的条件,数值计算结果表明,该量子态呈现出振幅平方压缩效应,并且压缩效应与复参数β有关。     

Hyperfine structure of light exotic atoms

Recoil corrections to the hyperfine structure of light exotic atoms, including the effect of the anomalous magnetic moment are calculated for light muonic and baryonic atoms. In the case of muonic atoms, the effects of recoil and finite nuclear size are significant in view of the presently attainable experimental precision.     

多光子J C模型中频率随时间变化场的压缩效应

利用多光子J C模型,考虑场频率随时间以正弦函数形式作小量变化,在旋波近似下,研究了二能级原子通过多光子跃迁与单模辐射场相互作用系统中场的压缩效应.利用数值计算方法讨论了场频率变化的幅值和角频率、以及光场强度对场压缩效应的影响.结果表明：随场频率变化的幅值增大,场压缩效应增强;随光场初始平均光子数的增加,场压缩效应减弱.场正交分量的均方涨落随时间的演化受场频率随时间正弦函数形式变化的调制,场频率变化的幅值越大调制作用越强.     

Squeezing and sub-Poissonian effects up-to fourth order in fifth harmonic generation

The concept of squeezing of the electromagnetic field is investigated in fundamental mode in fifth harmonic generation with the approximation |gt|²?1, where g is coupling constant and t, the interaction time between waves during the process. It has been found that squeezing occurs in amplitude, amplitude-squared, amplitude-cubed and fourth-order amplitude states of the field for selective phase values of field amplitude of fundamental mode. The dependence of squeezing on the photon number has also been investigated and found to be sub-Poissonian in nature. The signal to noise ratio has been studied in different order. It is found that the signal to noise ratio is higher in lower order.     

Squeezing in a three-level Jaynes-Cummings model with strong field

Squeezing in three-level Jaynes-Cummings model with the strong initial coherent state is studied numerically. The dependence of the squeezing on the field intensity and time is analysed. The cases that the light field is initially in a Fock state and in a squeezed vacuum state are also discussed.     

Prospect for detecting squeezed states of light created by a single atom in free space

We discuss the possibilities of studying in detail the dynamics of spontaneous emission of a single photon by a single atom and measuring the transient degree of squeezing by means of full solid angle fluorescence detection.     

Squeezing and photon statistical effects in spontaneous and stimulated eight-wave mixing process

Eight-wave mixing is a process which involves absorption of four pump photons and emission of three probe photons of same frequency and a signal photon of different frequency. Squeezing is investigated in the fundamental mode in spontaneous and stimulated eight-wave mixing process using quantum mechanical approach. The presence of squeezing in field amplitude, amplitude-squared and amplitude-cubed in the fundamental mode has been probed. The dependence of squeezing on photon number is established with investigations into degree of squeezing in the first and higher order of field amplitude. The photon statistics of the field in the fundamental mode has also been investigated. It has been found that the field shows sub-Poissonian behaviour in the fundamental mode.     

Scattering of atoms by light

This review discusses the latest theoretical and experimental achievements in the resonant light pressure acting on the translational motion of atoms. Alongside with the effects due to the spontaneous light pressure (atomic deflection, velocity bunching, cooling), various manifestations of the effects of induced light pressure are considered in detail. This paper provides the theory and experiments of atoms scattering by a standing light wave under the conditions of coherent and non-coherent interaction, diffraction and interference of atomic beams. The problems where atomic motion along two trajectories and Landau-Zener transitions between them are essential, are studied. The kinetic phenomena (scattering, cooling, channeling) due to the motion of the particles exposed to gradient force and also friction and diffusion caused by spontaneous emission are considered. The influence of the recoil effect under spontaneous emission of atoms on non-linear polarization phenomena is discussed.