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We report a theoretical study of a quantum optical model consisting of an array of strongly nonlinear cavities incoherently pumped by an ensemble of population-inverted two-level atoms. Projective methods are used to eliminate the atomic…

We discuss how coherent driving of a two-level quantum system can be used to induce a complex phase on the ground state and we discuss its geometric and dynamic contributions. While the global phase of a wave function has no physical…

We investigate the dynamics of a double quantum dot charge qubit which is coupled to piezoelectric acoustic phonons, appropriate for GaAs heterostructures. At low temperatures, the phonon bath induces a non-Markovian dynamical behavior of…

A coherent mechanism of robust population inversion in atomic and molecular systems by a chirped field is presented. It is demonstrated that a field of sufficiently high chirp rate imposes a certain relative phase between a ground and…

We present a theoretical prediction of a new mechanism for carrier population inversion in semiconductors under an applied electric field. The mechanism is originated from a coherent capture-emission type inelastic scattering of resonant…

We use the system-plus-reservoir approach to study the quantum dynamics of a bipartite continuous variable system (two generic particles). We present an extension of the traditional model of a bath of oscillators which is capable of…

We investigate a double quantum dot coupled to a transmission line resonator. By driving a current through the double dot, a population inversion between the dot levels can be created, and a lasing state of the radiation field is generated…

The ability of an environment to assist in one-photon phase control relies upon entanglement between the system and bath and on the breaking of the time reversal symmetry. Here, one photon phase control is examined analytically and…

The anomalous behavior of electron induced phonon transport is investigated using an Anderson-Holstein based dissipative quantum dot setup under two relevant bias situations: (a) a voltage bias in the absence of an electronic temperature…

Motivated by the theory of reaction kinetics based on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the linear stability of driven reaction-diffusion, we apply the Fokker-Planck equation to describe the population dynamics of an ensemble of reactive…

A simple method for describing the evolution of a quantum state of a double quantum dot system interacting simultaneously with the electromagnetic environment and with the lattice modes is developed. It is shown that the joint action of the…

The effect of acoustic phonons on different light-induced excitations of a semiconductor quantum dot is investigated. Resonant excitation of the quantum dot leads to Rabi oscillations, which are damped due to the phonon interaction. When…

We consider a system formed by an array of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a harmonic potential with a superimposed periodic optical potential. Starting from the boson field Hamiltonian, appropriate to describe dilute gas of bosonic…

Molecular systems containing donor-bridge-acceptor sites or molecular antennas constitute promising candidates for organic photovoltaic device implementation. Photo-induced electron transfer in multi-chromophore molecular systems is defined…

We present the density matrix approach for theoretical description of an asymmetric double quantum dot(QD)system.The results show that the properties of gain,absorption and dispersion of the double QD system ,the population of the state…

We study the absorption and dispersion properties of a weak tunable probe field in a four-level Y-type atomic system driven by two strong laser (coupling) fields within the framework of density matrix formalism. It is found that the probe…

We explore dynamics of a density pulse induced by a local quench in a one-dimensional electron system. The spectral curvature leads to an "overturn" (population inversion) of the wave. We show that beyond this time the density profile…

In this work, dissipative effects from a phonon bath on the resonance fluorescence of a solid state two level system embedded in a high quality semiconductor microcavity and driven by an intense laser, are investigated. Within the density…

We study the crucial role played by the solid-state environment in determining the photon emission characteristics of a driven quantum dot. For resonant driving, we predict a phonon-enhancement of the coherently emitted radiation field with…

We report on the dynamics of photodegradation and subsequent recovery of two-photon fluorescence in a dye-doped polymer. The energy dependence suggests that photo-degradation is a linear process while recovery is entropic. Such recovery…