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Response of the Strongly-Driven Jaynes-Cummings Oscillator

Quantum Physics 2010-09-03 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Optics

Abstract

We analyze the Jaynes-Cummings model of quantum optics, in the strong-dispersive regime. In the bad cavity limit and on timescales short compared to the atomic coherence time, the dynamics are those of a nonlinear oscillator. A steady-state non-perturbative semiclassical analysis exhibits a finite region of bistability delimited by a pair of critical points, unlike the usual dispersive bistability from a Kerr nonlinearity. This analysis explains our quantum trajectory simulations that show qualitative agreement with recent experiments from the field of circuit quantum electrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1005.0377,
  title  = {Response of the Strongly-Driven Jaynes-Cummings Oscillator},
  author = {Lev S. Bishop and Eran Ginossar and S. M. Girvin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.0377},
  year   = {2010}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures