Phase Control of the Quantum Statistics of Collective Emission
Abstract
We report nonclassical aspects of the collective behaviour of two atoms in a cavity by investigating the photon statistics and photon distribution in a very broad domain of parameters. Starting with the dynamics of two atoms radiating in phase into the cavity, we study the photon statistics for arbitrary interatomic phases as revealed by the second-order intensity correlation function at zero time and the Mandel parameter. We find that the light field can be tuned from antibunched to (super-)bunched as well as nonclassical to classical behaviour by merely modifying the atomic position. The highest nonclassicality in the sense of the smallest parameter is found when spontaneous emission, cavity decay, coherent pumping, and atom-cavity coupling are of comparable magnitude. We introduce a quantum version of the negative binomial distribution with its parameters directly related to and and discuss its range of applicability. We also examine the Klyshko parameter which highlights the nonclassicality of the photon distribution.
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@article{arxiv.1608.00137,
title = {Phase Control of the Quantum Statistics of Collective Emission},
author = {M. -O. Pleinert and J. von Zanthier and G. S. Agarwal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00137},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
v2 is an extended article on the quantum statistics part of v1, while an extended article on the radiation characteristics part of v1 (including hyperradiance) can be found at arXiv:1702.05392. v3: minor changes