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We study the spatial decoherence dynamics for the relative position of two atoms in a singlemode ring cavity. We find that the spatial decoherence of the two atoms depends strongly on their relative position. Taking into account the spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Li Zheng , Chui-Ping Yang , Franco Nori

The role of spontaneous emission in the interaction between a two-level atom and a pumped micro-cavity in the strong coupling regime is discussed in this paper. Especially, using a quantum Monte-Carlo simulation, we investigate atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Fang , Rui Guo , Xiaoji Zhou , Xuzong Chen

We study a two-level atom in interaction with a real massless scalar quantum field in a spacetime with a reflecting boundary. The presence of the boundary modifies the quantum fluctuations of the scalar field, which in turn modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hongwei Yu , Shizhuan Lu

We discuss the $E1$ and $M1$ spontaneous decay rates of the an emitter residing inside of a real cavity carved out of a vast, uniform, homogenous, isotropic, linear, lossless, dispersionless, and continuous medium. The ratio of the medium…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-23 Jaideep Singh

We investigate spontaneous photon emission processes of two-level atoms in parabolic and ellipsoidal cavities thereby taking into account the full multimode scenario. In particular, we calculate the excitation probabilities of the atoms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 Gernot Alber , Nils Trautmann

We study the time evolution of entangled states of a pair of identical atoms, considered in the harmonic approximation, coupled to an environment represented by an infinite set of free oscillators, with the whole system confined within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. G. Figueiredo , C. A. Linhares , A. P. C. Malbouisson , J. M. C. Malbouisson

Spontaneous emission of a two--level atom in free space is modified by other atoms in its vicinity leading to super- and sub-radiance. In particular, for atomic distances closer than the transition wavelength the maximally entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Martin Hebenstreit , Barbara Kraus , Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch

We investigate the spontaneous emission of one atom placed near an oscillating reflecting plate. We consider the atom modeled as a two-level system, interacting with the quantum electromagnetic field in the vacuum state, in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Alessandro Ferreri , Michelangelo Domina , Lucia Rizzuto , Roberto Passante

We consider the spontaneous emission of a broadening molecule on the surface of a micro-sphere in this paper. The density of states for the micro-cavity is derived from quasi-normal models(QNM's) expansion of the correlation functions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yun-Jie Xia , Guang-Can Guo , P. T. Leung

We study the correlated spontaneous emission from a dense spherical cloud of N atoms uniformly excited by absorption of a single photon. We find that the decay of such a state depends on the relation between an effective Rabi frequency…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Jun-Tao Chang , Marlan O. Scully

We study the dynamics of an atomic two-level system decaying by spontaneous emission of light. Subject to continuous detection of the radiated field, the system tends with certainty to the ground state in the long time limit, but at initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Anders Bolund , Klaus Mølmer

The short-time behavior of quantum decay of an unstable state initially located within an interaction region of finite range is investigated using a resonant expansion of the survival amplitude. It is shown that in general the short-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 Sergio Cordero , Gastón García-Calderón

Quantum escape of a particle via a time-dependent confining potential in a semi-infinite one-dimensional space is discussed. We describe the time-evolution of escape states in terms of scattering states of the quantum open system, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Tooru Taniguchi , Shin-ichi Sawada

We study the modification of the atomic spontaneous emission rate, i.e. Purcell effect, of $^{87}$Rb in the vicinity of an optical nanofiber ($\sim$500 nm diameter). We observe enhancement and inhibition of the atomic decay rate depending…

Cavitation is a common damage mechanism in soft solids. Here, we study this using a phase-separation technique in stretched, elastic solids to controllably nucleate and grow small cavities by several orders of magnitude. The ability to make…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-28 Jin Young Kim , Zezhou Liu , Byung Mook Weon , Tal Cohen , Chung-Yuen Hui , Eric R. Dufresne , Robert W. Style

We consider the light scattering from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice inside a cavity. In such a system, both the light and atomic motion should be treated in a fully quantum mechanical way. The unitary evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch

The change in the decay rate of an excited atom that is brought about by extinction and thermal-radiation effects in a nearby dielectric medium is determined from a quantummechanical model. The medium is a collection of randomly distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 L. G. Suttorp , A. J. van Wonderen

We consider an atom interacting with a quantized electromagnetic field inside a cavity with variable parameters. The atom in the ground state located in the initially empty cavity can be excited by variation of cavity parameters. We have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny , Yu. E. Lozovik

We consider a pair of identical two-level atoms interacting with a scalar field in one dimension, separated by a distance $x_{21}$. We restrict our attention to states where one atom is excited and the other is in the ground state, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gonzalo Ordonez , Sungyun Kim

We have theoretically studied the effect of deterministic temporal control of spontaneous emission in a dynamic optical microcavity. We propose a new paradigm in light emission: we envision an ensemble of two-level emitters in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Henri Thyrrestrup , Alex Hartsuiker , Jean-Michel Gérard , Willem L. Vos