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The underlying mechanisms for one photon phase control are revealed through a master equation approach. Specifically, two mechanisms are identified, one operating on the laser time scale and the other on the time scale of the system-bath…

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With Monte Carlo simulation method, we investigate the time dependent behavior of Ly$\alpha$ photon transfer in optically thick medium of the concordance $\Lambda$CDM universe. At high redshift, the Ly$\alpha$ photon escaping from optically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wen Xu , Xiang-Ping Wu , Li-Zhi Fang

We present an analytical model for cosmological Lyman-limit systems (LLSs) that successfully reproduces the observed evolution of the mean free path (L) of ionizing photons. The evolution of the co-moving mean free path is predominantly a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 Tom Theuns , TK Chan

Coherent dark states in atoms, created by simultaneous interaction of two coherent light fields with a 3-level system, are of prime importance in quantum state manipulation. They are used extensively in quantum sensing and quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 M. Shuker , J. W. Pollock , V. I. Yudin , J. Kitching , E. A. Donley

The formation of dark states under interaction of degenerate atomic states with incoherent broadband radiation (white light) is discussed. A simple coupling scheme in a three level Lambda-system, which allows both qualitative and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcis Auzinsh , Nikolai Bezuglov , Kaspars Miculis

The two-loop self-energy correction to the ground state Lamb shift is calculated for hydrogen-like ions with the nuclear charge Z=10-30 without any expansion in the binding field of the nucleus. A calculational technique is reported for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. A. Yerokhin

We consider the $1s$ Lamb shift in hydrogen and helium ions, a quantity, required for an accurate determination of the Rydberg constant and the proton charge radius by means of hydrogen spectroscopy, as well as for precision tests of the…

Embedding quantum dot circuits into microwave cavities has emerged as a novel platform for controlling photon emission statistics by electrical means. With such a circuit version of the Rabi model, we reveal previously undefined quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Lei-Lei Nian , Yi-Cheng Wang , Jin-Yi Wang , Long Xiong , Bo Zheng , Jing-Tao Lü

The two-loop self-energy correction is evaluated to all orders in Z\alpha for the ground-state Lamb shift of H-like ions with Z >= 10, where Z is the nuclear charge number and \alpha is the fine structure constant. The results obtained are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Yerokhin , P. Indelicato , V. M. Shabaev

Higher order $(\alpha/\pi)^2 (Z \alpha)^6$ logarithmic corrections to the hydrogen Lamb shift are calculated. The results obtained show the two-loop contribution has a very peculiar behavior, and significantly alter the theoretical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Krzysztof Pachucki

Recently we predicted a random blinking, i.e. macroscopic quantum jumps, in the fluorescence of a laser-driven atom-cavity system [Metz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 040503 (2006)]. Here we analyse the dynamics underlying this effect in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremy Metz , Almut Beige

Fundamentally, the dynamics of micro-macro transitions is instrumental to understanding the process of quantum-to-classical transitions; technologically, it can also facilitate the detection of the microscopic signals in quantum experiments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-06 Zhifan Zhou , Ulrich Vogl , Ryan T. Glasser , Zhongzhong Qin , Yami Fang , Jietai Jing , Weiping Zhang

The analytic derivation of the dynamic Stark shift of hydrogenic energy levels in the presence of the circularly polarized laser light is presented. We use the classical framework with considering an adiabatically damped laser+atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Behnam Nikoobakht

New unification theories predict Large Extra Dimensions (LEDs). If that is the case, gravity would be stronger at short ranges than what Newtonian gravity predicts. LEDs could also have effects at atomic level. In this paper we propose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Li zhigang , Wei-Tou Ni , Antonio Pulido Paton

We present predictions for the fluorescent Lyman-alpha emission signature arising from photoionized, optically thick structures in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) cosmological simulations of a Lambda-CDM universe using a Monte Carlo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Juna A. Kollmeier , Zheng Zheng , Romeel Davé , Andrew Gould , Neal Katz , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , David H. Weinberg

Lyman-$\alpha$ photons enable the cosmic dawn 21-cm signal through a process called the Wouthuysen-Field effect. An accurate model of the signal in this epoch hinges on the accuracy of the computation of the Ly$\alpha$ coupling, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Shikhar Mittal , Girish Kulkarni , Thibault Garel

Theoretical energy levels of the $n = 1$ and $n = 2$ states of hydrogenlike atoms with the nuclear charge numbers $1 \le Z \le 110$ are tabulated. The tabulation is based on ab initio quantum electrodynamical calculations performed to all…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 V. A. Yerokhin , V. M. Shabaev

The photon statistics of the light emitted from an atomic ensemble into a single field mode of an optical cavity is investigated as a function of the number of atoms. The light is produced in a Raman transition driven by a pump laser and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 M. Hennrich , A. Kuhn , G. Rempe

When the hydrogen atom moves, the proton current generates a magnetic field which interacts with the hydrogen electron. A simple analyze shows that this interaction between the hydrogen momentum and the electron is of order of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. I. Agafonov

We demonstrate a new approach to dissipation engineering in microwave quantum optics. For a single mode, dissipation usually corresponds to quantum jumps, where photons are lost one by one. Here, we are able to tune the minimal number of…