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We study non-equilibrium stationary states of a cavity system consisting of many atoms interacting with a quantized cavity field mode, under a driving field in a dissipative environment. We derive a quantum master equation which is suitable…

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We present analytically and numerically the spectrum of high harmonic emission generated by twisted electrons in the presence of linearly polarized light. Ensuing transitions from electronic continuum states with orbital angular momentum to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Sebastian Gemsheim , Jan-Michael Rost

We explore the connections between the constraints on the precision of quantum logical operations that arise from a conservation law, and those arising from quantum field fluctuations. We show that the conservation-law based constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Julio Gea-Banacloche , Masanao Ozawa

We derive fluctuation-dissipation relations for a tunnel junction driven by a high impedance microwave resonator, displaying strong quantum fluctuations. We find that the fluctuation-dissipation relations derived for classical forces hold,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 O. Parlavecchio , C. Altimiras , J. -R. Souquet , P. Simon , I. Safi , P. Joyez , D. Vion , P. Roche , D. Esteve , F. Portier

When molecules interact with intense light sources of femtosecond or shorter duration the rotational degrees of freedom are frozen during the response to the strong nonperturbative interaction. We show how the frozen degrees of freedom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-09-25 C. B. Madsen , A. S. Mouritzen , T. K. Kjeldsen , L. B. Madsen

We numerically investigate the quantum transport in a coupled kicked rotors with the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential. We find that the spontaneous $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry breaking of wavefunctions emerges when the amplitude of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jian-Zheng Li , Wen-Lei Zhao , Jie Liu

A material with symmetry breaking inside can transmit the symmetry breaking to its vicinity by vacuum electromagnetic fluctuations. Here, we show that vacuum quantum fluctuations proximate to a parity-symmetry-broken material can induce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 Yanzhe Ke , Zhigang Song , Qing-Dong Jiang

We theoretically investigate the quantum phase transition in the collective systems of qubits in a high-quality cavity, which is driven by a squeezed light. We show that the squeezed light induced symmetry breaking can result in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Chengjie Zhu , Leilei Ping , Yaping Yang , Girish S. Agarwal

We address two basic issues in the theory of galaxy formation from fluctuations of quantum fields: 1) the nature and origin of noise and fluctuations and 2) the conditions for using a classical stochastic equation for their description. On…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Hu , Juan Pablo Paz , Yuhong Zhang

The decoherence of quantum fluctuations into classical perturbations during inflation is discussed. A simple quantum mechanical argument, using a spatial particle wavefunction rather than a field description, shows that observable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

Finding the consequences of symmetry for open system quantum dynamics is a problem with broad applications, including describing thermal relaxation, deriving quantum limits on the performance of amplifiers, and exploring quantum metrology…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

Coherent control of harmonic generation was studied theoretically. A specific harmonic order was targeted. An optimal control theory was employed to find the driving field where restrictions were imposed on the frequency band. Additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Ido Schaefer , Ronnie Kosloff

This study investigates the interplay between a high-frequency external forcing and the intrinsic dynamics of a quantum nonlinear parametric oscillator. To analyze this system, classical equations of motion of the averages of quantum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-05 Somnath Roy , Chitrak Bhadra , Dhrubajyoti Biswas

Temporal evolution of a macroscopic condensate of ultra cold atoms is usually driven by mean field potentials, either due to scattering between atoms or due to coupling to external fields; and coherent quantum dynamics have been observed in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun Liang Song , Fei Zhou

High-harmonic generation has emerged as a pivotal process in strong-field physics, yielding extreme ultraviolet radiation and attosecond pulses with a wide range of applications. Furthermore, its emergent connection with the field of…

High-harmonic generation - the emission of high-frequency radiation by the ionization and subsequent recombination of an atomic electron driven by a strong laser field - is widely understood using a quasiclassical trajectory formalism,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Emilio Pisanty , Marcelo F. Ciappina , Maciej Lewenstein

High-harmonic generation is one of the most extreme nonlinear-optical processes observed to date. By focusing an intense laser pulse into a gas, the light-atom interaction that occurs during the process of ionising the atoms results in the…

We study the work fluctuations of a particle, confined to a moving harmonic potential, under the influence of friction and external Poissonian shot noise. The asymmetry of the noise induces an effective nonlinearity in the potential, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Baule , E. G. D. Cohen

This work continues the investigation of radiation phenomena from atom-field interactions, extending our earlier study of quantum radiation from a stationary atom's internal degree of freedom, modeled by a harmonic oscillator, to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-12 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

High-order harmonics generated by bicircular laser field have helicities which alternate between $+1$ and $-1$. In order to generate circularly polarized high-harmonic pulses, which are important for applications, it is necessary to achieve…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Dejan B. Milošević