Photon antibunching in the photoluminescence spectra of a single carbon nanotube

We report the first observation of photon antibunching in the photoluminescence from single carbon nanotubes. The emergence of a fast luminescence decay component under strong optical excitation indicates that Auger processes are partially responsible for inhibiting two-photon generation. Additionally, the presence of exciton localization at low temperatures ensures that nanotubes emit photons predominantly one by one. The fact that multiphoton emission probability can be smaller than 5% suggests that carbon nanotubes could be used as a source of single photons for applications in quantum cryptography.     

Photon antibunching and collective effects in the fluorescence of single bichromophoric molecules

The fluorescence of individual pairs of perylenemonoimide chromophores coupled via a short rigid linker is investigated. Photon antibunching is reported, indicating collective effects in the fluorescence, which are further substantiated by the observation of collective triplet off times and triplet lifetime shortening. The experimental findings are analyzed in terms of singlet-singlet and singlet-triplet annihilation based on F?rster type energy transfer. The results reported here demonstrate that the statistical properties of the emission light of isolated single quantum systems can serve as a hallmark of intermolecular interactions.     

Photon antibunching in the fluorescence of a single dye molecule embedded in a thin polymer film

We used scanning confocal microscopy to study the fluorescence from a single terrylene molecule embedded in a thin polymer film of polymethyl methacrylate, at room temperature, with a high signal-to-background ratio. The photon-pair correlation function g((2))(tau) exhibits perfect photon antibunching at tau = 0 and a limit of 1.3, compatible with bunching associated with the molecular triplet state. Application of this molecular system to a triggered single-photon source based on single-molecule fluorescence is investigated.     

Enhanced circular dichroism of plasmonic system in the strong coupling regime

The circular dichroism(CD) signal of a molecule is usually weak,however,a strong CD signal in optical spectrum is desirable because of its wide range of applications in biosensing,chiral photo detection,and chiral catalysis.In this work,we show that a strong chiral response can be obtained in a hybridized system consisting of an artificial chiral molecule and a nanorod in the strong coupling regime.The artificial chiral molecule is composed of six quantum dots in a helix assembly,and its CD signal arises from internal Coulomb interactions between quantum dots.The CD signal of the hybridized system is highly dependent on the Coulomb interactions and the strong coupling progress through the electromagnetic interactions.We use the coupled oscillator model to analyze strong coupling phenomenon and address that the strong coupling progress can amplify the CD signal.This work provides a scenario for designing new plasmonic nanostructures with a strong chiral optical response.     

Nonequilibrium steady state transport of collective-qubit system in strong coupling regime

We investigate the steady state photon transport in a nonequilibrium collective-qubit model. By adopting the noninteracting blip approximation, which is applicable in the strong photon–qubit coupling regime, we describe the essential contribution of indirect qubit–qubit interaction to the population distribution, mediated by the photonic baths. The linear relations of both the optimal flux and noise power with the qubits system size are obtained. Moreover, the inversed power-law style for the finite-size scaling of the optimal photon–qubit coupling strength is exhibited, which is proposed to be universal.     

Electron-phonon coupling and a polaron in the t-J model: from the weak to the strong coupling regime

We present numeric results for ground state and angle resolved photoemission spectra (ARPES) for a single hole in the t-J model coupled to optical phonons. The systematic-error-free diagrammatic Monte Carlo method is employed where the Feynman graphs for the Matsubara Green function in imaginary time are summed up completely with respect to phonon variables, while magnetic variables are subjected to the noncrossing approximation. We obtain that at electron-phonon coupling constants relevant for high T(c) cuprates the polaron undergoes a self-trapping crossover to the strong-coupling limit and theoretical ARPES demonstrate features observed in experiment: A broad peak in the bottom of the spectra has momentum dependence which coincides with that of a hole in the pure t-J model.     

Intense laser-cluster interaction in the strong coupling regime

The interaction of noble gas clusters with moderately intense laser radiation at 100 and 800 nm is investigated via molecular dynamics simulations. It is shown that the laser-cluster interaction creates a strongly coupled plasma, which is characterized by a dominance of collisional processes. This has led to several findings. (1) A new heating mechanism is identified that explains the observation of unusually high-charge states in recent experiments with 100 nm radiation at DESY. We find that energy absorption takes place in the following cycle: many-body collisions resulting in an enhanced recombination of free electrons to exited states, and subsequent reionization. (2) Cluster interaction with 800 nm radiation is a promising system for investigating the transition from weakly coupled plasmas, where collective processes dominate, to strongly coupled plasmas. We achieve this transition by varying a single parameter: the laser intensity. The experimental and theoretical accessibility of laser-cluster interaction, thus, allows a systematic combined study of the interplay between collective and collisional processes.     

Photon antibunching in resonance fluorescence from impurity atoms in solids

The experimental conditions under which the intensity correlation function of resonance fluorescence of a single atom in a gas may be observed are briefly discussed. In general they can complicate the direct observation of photon antibunching. A direct observation should be possible in the case of a single impurity atom in a solid state matrix. The corresponding intensity correlation function is given.     

Dynamics of the transition from strong to weak coupling regime in a system of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities

The dynamics of polaritonic emission of a GaAs-based microcavity with embedded quantum wells under nonresonant optical excitation is studied. Kinetic dependences of the intensity, spectral position, and linewidth of spontaneous and stimulated emission of the microcavity are measured. It is established that the dynamics of the high-frequency shift of the emission line is qualitatively similar to the dynamics of the emission intensity, but the spectral shift attains its maximum value before the peak intensity is reached. The emission linewidth is maximal immediately after the excitation pulse. Under the conditions of spontaneous emission, the linewidth decreases steadily with time, approaching the value corresponding to low polariton densities. Under lasing conditions, the linewidth is at a minimum when the stimulated-emission intensity attains its peak value. The experimental data are analyzed on the basis of a theoretical model that describes relaxation processes taking into account exciton-exciton and exciton-free carrier interactions.     

Coherent response of a semiconductor microcavity in the strong coupling regime

We have studied the coherent dynamics of a semiconductor microcavity by means of interferometric correlation measurements with subpicosecond time resolution in a backscattering geometry. Evidence is brought of the resolution of a homogeneous polariton line in an inhomogeneously broadened exciton system. Surprisingly, photon-like polaritons exhibit an inhomogeneous dephasing. Moreover, we observe an unexpected stationary coherence up to 8 ps for the lower polariton branch close to resonance. All these experimental results are well reproduced within the framework of a linear dispersion theory assuming a coherent superposition of the reflectivity and resonant Rayleigh scattering signals with a well-defined relative phase.     

Deep strong coupling regime of the Jaynes-Cummings model

We study the quantum dynamics of a two-level system interacting with a quantized harmonic oscillator in the deep strong coupling regime (DSC) of the Jaynes-Cummings model, that is, when the coupling strength g is comparable or larger than the oscillator frequency ω (g/ω?1). In this case, the rotating-wave approximation cannot be applied or treated perturbatively in general. We propose an intuitive and predictive physical frame to describe the DSC regime where photon number wave packets bounce back and forth along parity chains of the Hilbert space, while producing collapse and revivals of the initial population. We exemplify our physical frame with numerical and analytical considerations in the qubit population, photon statistics, and Wigner phase space.     

Dispersion of doppleron-phonon modes in strong coupling regime

The dispersion equation for doppleron-phonon modes was constructed and solved analytically in the strong coupling regime. The Fermi surface model proposed previously for calculating the doppleron spectrum in an indium crystal was used. It was shown that in the vicinity of doppleron-phonon resonance, the dispersion curves of coupled modes form a gap qualitatively different from the one observed under helicon-phonon resonance: there is a frequency interval forbidden for existence of waves of definite circular polarization depending upon direction of the external DC magnetic field. The physical reason for it is interaction of the waves which have oppositely directed group velocities.     

Nonlinear emission of semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime

We report on the nonlinear laserlike emission from semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime. Under resonant continuous wave excitation we observe a highly emissive state. The energy, dispersion, and spatial extent of this state is measured and is found to be dispersionless and spatially localized. This state coexists with luminescence that follows the usual cavity-polariton dispersion. It is attributed to the amplification of luminescence by a parametric gain due to cavity-polariton scattering. Despite the resonant excitation at 1.6 K, we observe no sign of Bose-Einstein condensation nor Boser action.     

Photon bunching and antibunching in second harmonics generation

A nonperturbative, numerical study of photon statistics in second harmonics generation is presented.     

Photon antibunching in the spontaneous emission from dicke's superradiant state

Quantum statistical properties of the spontaneous emission from a system of N identical two-level atoms in Dicke's superradiant state initially are studied analytically by solving exactly the superradiant master equation. It is found that photon antibunching exists in approximately the first half of the superradiant pulse duration.     

Emission spectrum of a qubit in Rabi model in strong coupling regime

The analytical eigenenergies and eigenstates of the Rabi model are obtained approximately based on a unitary transformation and a generalized rotating-wave approximation (GRWA). Using these analytical expressions without the rotating wave approximation (RWA), we generalize the definition of the physical emission spectrum valid with the RWA in order to meet without the RWA with some modifications. Taking into account the counter-rotating wave terms and the intercrossing of energy level in the strong coupling regime, the physical emission spectrum of qubit is investigated. Different from the case with RWA, the multi-peak vacuum Rabi splitting, even when the qubit initially in its ground state and the bosonic field initially in vacuum, can emerge. These new features of physical emission spectrum originate from the effect of counter-rotating wave terms. Moreover, the intercrossing of energy level can also be observed in the strong coupling regime.