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We investigate the quantum optical properties of a single photon emitter coupled to a finite-size metal nanoparticle using a photon Green function technique that rigorously quantizes the electromagnetic fields. We first obtain pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 C. Van Vlack , Philip Trøst Kristensen , S. Hughes

The ability to prepare, optically read out and coherently control single quantum states is a key requirement for quantum information processing. Optically active solid state emitters have emerged as promising candidates with their prospects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Yu Zhou , Abdullah Rasmita , Ke Li , Qihua Xiong , Igor Aharonovich , Wei-bo Gao

We show that, under certain circumstances, an optical field in a two-mode squeezed vacuum (TMSV) state can propagate through a lossy atomic medium without degradation or evolution. Moreover, the losses give rise to that state when a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 E. S. Moiseev , Arina Tashchilina , S. A. Moiseev , A. I. Lvovsky

Spin-based quantum information processing makes extensive use of spin-state manipulation. This ranges from dynamical decoupling of nuclear spins in quantum sensing experiments to applying logical gates on qubits in a quantum processor. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Dan Yudilevich , Alon Salhov , Ido Schaefer , Konstantin Herb , Alex Retzker , Amit Finkler

Electrons in atoms and molecules move on attosecond time scales. Deciphering their quantum dynamics in space and time calls for high-resolution microscopy at this speed. While scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) driven with terahertz…

This paper theoretically analyzes the behavior of an atom driven by a strong electro-magnetic field. Moreover, besides traditional quantum mechanics method, we also investigate semiclassical approaches to this problem. We first performed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Renjing Xu , Donghao Zhang , Anatoli Kheifets , Igor Ivanov

Recent developments in attosecond technology led to tabletop X-ray spectroscopy in the soft X-ray range, thus uniting the element- and state-specificity of core-level x-ray absorption spectroscopy with the time resolution to follow…

In this work, we investigate the electronic and optical properties of the b-AsP quantum dots(QDs) and quantum rings(QRs) with different edge types in the presence of an in-plane electric field and a perpendicular magnetic field utilizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Chen Li , Xuefei Yan , Jinluo Cheng , Weiqi Li

Compton scattering is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics, describing the fundamental interaction of a charged particle with photons. The Compton effect and its inverse are utilized in experiments driving free electrons by high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Majed Khalaf , Ido Kaminer

We study intraband high-harmonic generation (HHG) in a crystal driven by quantum light. Previous theoretical studies have developed a framework based on coherent state expansions in terms of P distributions to consider nonclassical driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Rasmus Vesterager Gothelf , Christian Saugbjerg Lange , Lars Bojer Madsen

In this paper, I argue that light is a continuous classical electromagnetic wave, while the observed so-called quantum nature of the interaction of light with matter is connected to the discrete (atomic) structure of matter and to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-04 Sergey A. Rashkovskiy

We use three dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (3D--TDSE) to calculate angular electron momentum distributions and photoelectron spectra of atoms driven by spatially inhomogeneous fields. An example for such inhomogeneous…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 M. F. Ciappina , J. A. Pérez-Hernández , T. Shaaran , L. Roso , M. Lewenstein

We theoretically investigate the absorption and emission of light carrying orbital angular momentum (twisted-light) by quasi-two-dimensional (disc-shaped) quantum dots in the presence of a static magnetic field. We calculate the transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 G. F. Quinteiro , P. I. Tamborenea

Laser-driven electron transport across a sample has garnered enormous attentions over several decades, because it potentially allows one to control spin transports in spintronics. But light is a transverse electromagnetic wave, how an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-23 Robert Meadows , Y. Xue , Nicholas Allbritton , G. P. Zhang

We study the photoelectric current generated by a driving light with nonclassical photon statistics. Due to the nonclassical input photon statistics, it is no longer enough to treat the driving light as a planar wave as in classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Hai-Yan Yao , Sheng-Wen Li

We investigate a singly-charged quantum dot under a strong optical driving field by probing the system with a weak optical field. When the driving field is detuned from the trion transition, the probe absorption spectrum is shifted from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiaodong Xu , Bo Sun , Erik D. Kim , Katherine Smirl , P. R. Berman , D. G. Steel , A. S. Bracker , D. Gammon , L. J. Sham

The excitation of quasi-particles near the extrema of the electronic band structure is a gateway to electronic phase transitions in condensed matter. In a many-body system, quasi-particle dynamics are strongly influenced by the electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-05 T. P. H. Sidiropoulos , N. Di Palo , D. E. Rivas , A. Summers , S. Severino , M. Reduzzi , J. Biegert

Strong light-matter coupling enables hybrid states in which photonic and electronic degrees of freedom become correlated even in the ground state. While many-body effects in long-range dispersion interactions are known to reshape electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Cankut Tasci , Mohammad Hassan , Leon Orlov-Sullivan , Leonardo A. Cunha , Johannes Flick

Field-emission of electrons underlies major advances in science and technology, ranging from imaging the atomic-scale structure of matter to signal processing at ever-higher frequencies. The advancement of these applications to their…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-22 H. Y. Kim , M. Garg , S. Mandal , L. Seiffert , T. Fennel , E. Goulielmakis

This perspective introduces attosecond path qubits: measurement-defined two-level subsystems that arise naturally in strong-field physics from the coherent interference of distinguishable quantum pathways. These effective qubits are…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-14 Oren Cohen
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