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Field quantization for chaotic resonators with overlapping modes

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Feshbach's projector technique is employed to quantize the electromagnetic field in optical resonators with an arbitray number of escape channels. We find spectrally overlapping resonator modes coupled due to the damping and noise inflicted by the external radiation field. For wave chaotic resonators the mode dynamics is determined by a non--Hermitean random matrix. Upon including an amplifying medium, our dynamics of open-resonator modes may serve as a starting point for a quantum theory of random lasing.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0111156,
  title  = {Field quantization for chaotic resonators with overlapping modes},
  author = {G. Hackenbroich and C. Viviescas and F. Haake},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0111156},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure