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We study the unitary time evolution of photons interacting with a dielectric resonator using coherent control pulses. We show that non-Markovianity of transient photon dynamics in the resonator subsystem may be controlled to within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Anthony F. J. Levi , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Tameem Albash , Stephan Haas

The evolution of the spatial degrees of freedom of a photon propagating through atmospheric turbulence is treated as a non-Markovian process. Here, we derive and solve the evolution equation for this process. The turbulent medium is modeled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-05 Filippus S. Roux

Recent advances in optical imaging and communication increasingly involve high-dimensional, partially coherent light, creating a growing need for scalable tools to measure and manipulate coherence. Here, we demonstrate the automatic…

Excitons in a semiconductor monolayer form a collective resonance that can reflect resonant light with extraordinarily high efficiency. Here, we investigate the nonlinear optical properties of such atomistically thin mirrors and show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Valentin Walther , Lida Zhang , Susanne F. Yelin , Thomas Pohl

We demonstrate the quantum Talbot effect using pairs of single photons produced by parametric down conversion. In contrast to the previous works, we use a programmable spatial light modulator to behave as a diffraction grating. Thus, the…

Utilizing nonlinear interferometers for sensing with undetected light enables new sensing and imaging techniques in spectral ranges that are difficult to detect. To enhance this method for future applications, it is advantageous to extract…

The bulk states of some materials, such as topological insulators, are described by a modified Dirac equation. Such systems may have trivial and non-trivial phases. In this paper, we show that in the non-trivial phase a strong light-matter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-05 N. M. R. Peres , Jaime E. Santos

The system-environment interaction is simulated by light propagating in coupled photonic waveguides. The profile of the electromagnetic field provides intuitive physical insight to study the Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics of open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Chang-Ling Zou , Xiang-Dong Chen , Xiao Xiong , Fang-Wen Sun , Xu-Bo Zou , Zheng-Fu Han , Guang-Can Guo

We derive an extension to the quantum regression theorem which facilitates the calculation of two-time correlation functions and emission spectra for systems undergoing non-Markovian evolution. The derivation exploits projection operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Dara P. S. McCutcheon

Nonlinear squeezing is a property of non-Gaussian states of light with an important application in continuous variable quantum computing. We study the generation of nonlinear squeezing in multimode systems produced by the photon-added…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Vojtěch Kala , Denis Kopylov , Petr Marek , Polina Sharapova

The non-Markovianity is a recently proposed characterization of the non-Markovian behavior in an open quantum system, based on which we first present a practical idea for directly measuring the non-Markovian character of a single qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 Z. Y. Xu , W. L. Yang , M. Feng

We suggest and demonstrate an all-optical experimental setup to observe and engineer entanglement oscillations of a pair of polarization qubits in a non-Markovian channel. We generate entangled photon pairs by spontaneous parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Simone Cialdi , Davide Brivio , Enrico Tesio , Matteo G. A. Paris

We put forward a powerful technique that allows generating quasi-non-diffracting light beams with a variety of complex transverse shapes and topologies. We show that, e.g., spiraling patterns, patterns featuring curved or bent bright…

We present a formulation of non-Markovian quantum trajectories for open systems from a measurement theory perspective. In our treatment there are three distinct ways in which non-Markovian behavior can arise; a mode dependent coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. W. Jack , M. J. Collett , D. F. Walls

The amplified spontaneous emission from a superluminescent diode was frequency doubled in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide crystal. The temporally incoherent radiation of such a superluminescent diode is characterized by a…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Henning Kurzke , Jan Kiethe , Axel Heuer , Andreas Jechow

Interactions between photons (nonlinearities) enable a powerful form of control over the state of light. This control has enabled technologies such as light sources at new wavelengths, ultra-short optical pulses, frequency-comb metrology…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Jamison Sloan , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljačić

Topology is central to understanding and engineering materials that display robust physical phenomena immune to imperfections. Different topological phases of matter are characterised by topological invariants. In energy-conserving…

We propose an optical method of shining circularly polarized and spatially periodic laser fields to imprint superlattice structures in two-dimensional electronic systems. By changing the configuration of the optical field, we synthesize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Hwanmun Kim , Hossein Dehghani , Hideo Aoki , Ivar Martin , Mohammad Hafezi

Due to their unique ability to maintain an intensity distribution upon propagation, non-diffracting light fields are used extensively in various areas of science, including optical tweezers, nonlinear optics and quantum optics, in…

We study the properties of a refined weak coupling limit that preserves complete positivity in order to describe non-Markovian dynamics in the spin-boson model. With this tool, we show the system presents a rich and new non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-10 Ángel Rivas