两模腔中的参量上转换和下转换

提出了一种通过建立双线性二次哈密顿量在量子腔中实现参量上转换和下转换的方案.通常在非线性过程中,介质本身不参与能量的净交换,但光波频率可以发生转换的作用称为参量转换作用.此方案建立在一个四能级原子同时与两经典场和两量子场相互作用的基础上,理论属于非线性光学四波混频范畴.将原子制备在合适的能级上,经典光场与相应的能级发生共振,而同时量子光场与相应的能级产生大失谐相互作用,在强相互作用区域内,原子和腔场失耦合,进而实现腔模的参量转换.根据所制备初始能级的不同以及光场激发能级的差异,分别实现了参量上转换和参量下转换.在利用参量下转换制备压缩算符后,对实验的可行性进行了讨论,并且给出了理论值.结果表明：在级联三能原子中采用一个级联双光子过程代替了原来的两个偶极禁戒跃迁间的经典驱动,可以保证高的不同频率之间的转换效率,并且用于光的量子操控和量子信息处理.     

Two-Photon Excited Diffraction Grating: Self-Diffraction and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Colloidal CdSe/ZnS QDs

Specific features have been revealed of nonlinear optical processes occurring when the total energy of two photons of a mode-locked Nd³⁺:YAG laser coincides with the energy of the main electron—hole (exciton) transition in colloidal CdSe/ZnS QDs and the effective self-diffraction of two laser beams arises on the induced diffraction grating.     

Bloch oscillations of path-entangled photons

We show that when photons in N-particle path-entangled |N,0)+|0,N) or N00N states undergo Bloch oscillations, they exhibit a periodic transition between spatially bunched and antibunched states. The period of the bunching-antibunching oscillation is N times faster than the period of the oscillation of the photon density, manifesting the unique coherence properties of N00N states. The transition occurs even when the photons are well separated in space.     

Features of dynamics of stimulated atomic-molecular Raman conversion in a Bose-Einstein condensate

A set of nonlinear evolution equations describing the dynamics of atoms, molecules, and photons in the course of stimulated atomic—molecular conversion in a Bose—Einstein condensate is derived and studied in the mean-field approximation. It is shown that conversion can be periodic or aperiodic in time, the rate of the process being determined to a considerable extent by the initial density of particles and by the initial phase difference. Depending on the initial conditions, various conversion modes can be realized. The possibility of stabilization of a special state (of rest) of the system for nonzero initial number densities of particles is predicted. It is pointed out that coherence of a Bose condensate of atoms, molecules, and photons predetermines the possibility of phase control of the conversion process.     

Theory of two-photon micromaser： competition among different transition processes

We have investigated the steady-state cavity-field properties of a single-mode two-photon micromaser when the atoms in a cascade three-level configuration are initially prepared in a mixture of the upper and intermediate states. The mean photon number, trapping state and sub-Poissonian effect are discussed with upper (intermediate)-state population changing from 1(0) to 0(1). These properties are very different from those in a pure two- or one-photon transition process, due to the competition among different transition processes. In particular, the trapping states of nonzero photons are discovered in this system under some conditions, which is contrary to the previous findings.     

On the type of a phase transition in the system of exciton polaritons in an optical microcavity

The type of a phase transition in the quasi-equilibrium system of exciton polaritons in a two-dimensional optical microcavity has been analyzed. It has been shown that, although the system contains two types of bosons undergoing mutual transformations into each other, only one phase transition to the superfluid state with the quasilong-range order occurs in the two-dimensional system. This phase transition is a Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition. A new physical implementation—excitons in a photon crystal—has been proposed for the Bose condensation of exciton polaritons. The superfluid properties of the ordered phase are discussed, and the superfluid density and Kosterlitz-Thouless transition temperature have been calculated in the low-density approximation.     

Entanglement on demand through time reordering

Entangled photons can be generated "on demand" in a novel scheme involving unitary time reordering of the photons emitted in a radiative decay cascade. The scheme yields polarization entangled photon pairs, even though prior to reordering the emitted photons carry significant "which path information" and their polarizations are unentangled. This shows that quantum chronology can be manipulated in a way that is lossless and deterministic (unitary). The theory can, in principle, be tested and applied to the biexciton cascade in semiconductor quantum dots.     

Superradiant cascade emissions in an atomic ensemble via four-wave mixing

We investigate superradiant cascade emissions from an atomic ensemble driven by two-color classical fields. The correlated pair of photons (signal and idler) is generated by adiabatically driving the system with large-detuned light fields via four-wave mixing. The signal photon from the upper transition of the diamond-type atomic levels is followed by the idler one which can be superradiant due to light-induced dipole–dipole interactions. We then calculate the cooperative Lamb shift (CLS) of the idler photon, which is a cumulative effect of interaction energy. We study its dependence on a cylindrical geometry, a conventional setup in cold atom experiments, and estimate the maximum CLS which can be significant and observable. Manipulating the CLS of cascade emissions enables frequency qubits that provide alternative robust elements in quantum network.     

多光子Jaynes-Cummings模型中与Glauber-Lachs态相互作用原子的熵压缩

利用全量子理论,研究了多光子Jaynes-Cummings模型中与Glauber-Lachs态相互作用的混合态原子的信息熵压缩。讨论了相干平均光子数、热平均光子数、跃迁光子数、原子初态参量对原子信息熵压缩的影响。结果表明原子信息熵 分量没有熵压缩性质;相干平均光子数取值适当时,原子信息熵 分量呈现熵压缩效应;热平均光子数、跃迁光子数会破坏原子信息熵 分量的熵压缩效应;原子初态参量对原子信息熵 分量能否呈现熵压缩效应没有决定性作用;伴随双光子跃迁时,原子的熵压缩因子的时间演化曲线呈现周期性。     

Deterministic single-photon source for distributed quantum networking

A sequence of single photons is emitted on demand from a single three-level atom strongly coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity. The photons are generated by an adiabatically driven stimulated Raman transition between two atomic ground states, with the vacuum field of the cavity stimulating one branch of the transition, and laser pulses deterministically driving the other branch. This process is unitary and therefore intrinsically reversible, which is essential for quantum communication and networking, and the photons should be appropriate for all-optical quantum information processing.     

Entangled photon pairs from semiconductor quantum dots

Tomographic analysis demonstrates that the polarization state of pairs of photons emitted from a biexciton decay cascade becomes entangled when spectral filtering is applied. The measured density matrix of the photon pair satisfies the Peres criterion for entanglement by more than 3 standard deviations of the experimental uncertainty and violates Bell's inequality. We show that the spectral filtering erases the "which path" information contained in the photons' color and that the remanent information in the quantum dot degrees of freedom is negligible.     

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons and Photon Pairs

We investigate the Bose-Einstein condensation of photons and photon pairs in a two-dimension optical microcavity. We find that in the paraxial approximation, the mixed gas of photons and photon pairs is formally equivalent to a two dimension system of massive bosons with non-vanishing chemical potential, which implies the existence of two possible condensate phase. We also discuss the quantum phase transition of the system and obtain the critical point analytically. Moreover, we find that the quantum phase transition of the system can be interpreted as second harmonic generation.     

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons and Photon Pairs

We investigate the Bose-Einstein condensation of photons and photon pairs in a two-dimension optical microcavity. We find that in the paraxial approximation, the mixed gas of photons and photon pairs is formally equivalent to a two dimension system of massive bosons with non-vanishing chemical potential, which implies the existence of two possible condensate phase. We also discuss the quantum phase transition of the system and obtain the critical point analytically. Moreover, we find that the quantum phase transition of the system can be interpreted as second harmonic generation.     

Prompt photon production in ee annihilation

We investigate the production of prompt photons in e⁺e⁻ annihilation events. The result of the dipole cascade model, as implemented in the ARIADNE MC, is compared with the perturbative O(_SQED) matrix element, which is expected to be reliable for relatively hard photons. We show that for softer photons the dipole model agrees with Low's theorem. The model interpolates smoothly between the two limiting situations in good agreement with the experimental data for OPAL. The result can be interpreted in terms of a notion of “time ordering” in the production process, and we show how this can be further investigated experimentally.     

Application of optimal control theory to ultrafast nonresonant multiphoton transitions in polyatomic molecules

Optimal control theory (OCT) including nonresonant multiphoton transitions (NMT) in the femtosecond time regime has been implemented. The NMT process is modelled using an effective time-dependent Schrödinger equation, which considers a reduced space of the two levels which are involved in the transition, coupled to a density of high-lying off-resonant states. The specification of OCT to two-photon transitions is done within the rotating wave approximation. As an application, the transfer and displacement of a wavepacket in the organometallic system CpMn(CO)₃, from the ground to an electronically excited state using two nonresonant photons, is simulated.     

Coherent excitation of then=3 level of hydrogen in a field free region

The theory of coherent excitation of then=3 level of atomic hydrogen by electron impact is studied using density matrix techniques. A set of multipole parameters is defined which allows to characterise coherently excited states with different angular momenta. Numerical results of these parameters, calculated in first order Born approximation, are tabulated for several energies and angles. Angular distribution and polarization of Balmer-α radiation are expressed in terms of the initial multipole parameters for the case that scattered electrons and emitted photons are detected in coincidence. The theory of cascade effects is briefly considered and applied to the case where scattered electrons and Lyman-α photons are detected in coincidence, generalising earlier formulations. Most of the formulas presented here are quite general and can be applied, for example, to an analysis of light emitted by beam foil excited hydrogenic levels.     

Signatures of blazar spectra in the electromagnetic and hadronic intergalactic cascade models

There are indications that a secondary component of cascade photons is present in the spectra of some bright blazars. The main spectral signatures are considered using the electromagnetic model. The simplest version of the hadronic cascade model can be distinguished from the electromagnetic cascade at a significance level of ~3 σ for a typical observation of a blazar at the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA).     

Kernspektroskopische Untersuchungen am Zerfall des115m Cd

The energy levels in¹¹⁵In at 934, 1133, 1291, and 1419 keV weakly populated by β^?-decay from^115m Cd have been studied by angular correlation measurements using NaJ(Tl)-detectors. The previously measured angular correlations of the (485–934) keV cascade—which is practically isotropic—and the (158–1133) keV cascade were remeasured with higher accuracy. A 286 keV transition between the 1419 and the 1133 keV energy levels was observed and the highly anisotropic angular correlation of the (286–1133) keV cascade was also measured.     

On emission lifetimes in atomic cascade tests of the Bell inequality

It is shown that the possibility of subluminal information exchanges cannot be ruled out in atomic cascade tests of the Bell inequality, if the emission lifetimes of both photons of the cascade are taken into account.