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Achieving strong coupling between light and matter is usually a challenge in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED), especially in solid state systems. For this reason is useful taking advantage of alternative approaches to reach this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 J. E. Ramírez-Muñoz , J. P. Restrepo Cuartas , H. Vinck-Posada

We investigate the cavity excitation spectrum and the photon number distribution in a cavity QED system driven by a broadband squeezed vacuum. In an empty cavity, we show that only states with even number of photons can be measured under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Daqiang Bao , Chengjie Zhu , Yaping Yang , G. S. Agarwal

Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (cQED), the study of the interaction between superconducting circuits behaving as artificial atoms and 1-dimensional transmission-line resonators, has shown much promise for quantum information processing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Lev S. Bishop

Strong interaction between light and matter waves, such as electron beams in electron microscopes, has recently emerged as a new tool for understanding entanglement. Here, we systematically investigate electron-light interactions from first…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Nahid Talebi

Optical nonlinearities offer unique possibilities for the control of light with light. A prominent example is electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) where the transmission of a probe beam through an optically dense medium is…

Optical parametric processes underpin quantum photonics, while free-electron--photon interactions offer agile pathways to generate nontrivial quantum photonic states. These threads have so far largely progressed independently, whereas…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-23 Zetao Xie , Zehai Pang , Yi Yang

Quantum physics rules the dynamics of small objects as they interact over microscopic length scales. Nevertheless, quantum correlations involving macroscopic distances can be observed between entangled photons as well as in atomic gases and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Cruz I. Velasco , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

The most simple and seemingly straightforward application of the photon blockade effect, in which the transport of one photon prevents the transport of others, would be to separate two incoming indistinguishable photons to different output…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-21 Serge Rosenblum , Scott Parkins , Barak Dayan

We investigate squeezing of light through quantum-noise-limited interactions with two different material systems: an ultracold atomic spin ensemble and a micromechanical membrane. Both systems feature a light-matter quantum interface that…

Do the wavepacket-size of free-electron wavefunction and its history have physical effect in its interaction with light? Here we answer this problem by analyzing a QED model, considering both spontaneous and stimulated emission of quantized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Yiming Pan , Avraham Gover

Strongly correlated electron systems are a cornerstone of modern physics, being responsible for groundbreaking phenomena from superconducting magnets to quantum computing. In most cases, correlations in electrons arise exclusively due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Suraj Kumar , Jeremy Lim , Nicholas Rivera , Wesley Wong , Yee Sin Ang , Lay Kee Ang , Liang Jie Wong

A potential scheme is proposed to generate complete sets of entangled photons in the context of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). The scheme includes twice interactions of atoms with cavities, in which the first interaction is made in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. L. Zhang , M. Feng , K. L. Gao

In a cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) system, where atoms coherently interact with photons in a cavity, the eigenstates of the system are the superposition states of atoms and cavity photons, the so-called dressed states of atoms. When…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Shinya Kato , Nikolett Német , Kohei Senga , Shota Mizukami , Xinhe Huang , Scott Parkins , Takao Aoki

Free electron beams and their quantum coupling with photons is attracting a rising interest due to the basic questions it addresses and the cutting-edge technology these particles are involved in, such as microscopy, spectroscopy, and…

General Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Eitan Kazakevich , Hadar Aharon , Ofer Kfir

Cavity quantum-electrodynamics experiments using an atom coupled to a single radiation-field mode have played a central role in testing foundations of quantum mechanics, thus motivating solid-state implementations using single quantum dots…

The purpose of this paper is to study two-photon dynamics induced by the coherent feedback control of a cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity-QED) system coupled to a waveguide. In this set-up, the two-level system in the cavity can work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Haijin Ding , Guofeng Zhang

The modulation and engineering of the free-electron wave function bring new ingredients to the electron-matter interaction. We study the dynamics of a free-electron passing by a two-level system fully quantum mechanically and emphasize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Zhexin Zhao , Xiao-Qi Sun , Shanhui Fan

An intriguing consequence of quantum field theory is that vacuum is not empty space; it is full of quantum fluctuating electromagnetic fields, or virtual photons, corresponding to their zero-point energy, even though the average number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Andrey Baydin , Hanyu Zhu , Motoaki Bamba , Kaden Hazzard , Junichiro Kono

The aim of this article is to explore a potential usability of a photon-photon self-interaction from the noncommutative quantum electrodynamics (NCQED) in the case of light-by-light scattering ($\gamma\gamma\to\gamma\gamma$) in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Raul Horvat , Dusko Latas , Josip Trampetic , Jiangyang You

The generation of nonclassical light states bears a paramount importance in quantum optics and is largely relying on the interaction between intense laser pulses and nonlinear media. Recently, electron beams, such as those used in ultrafast…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-23 Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo