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The interaction of a single-photon wave packet with an initially excited two-level atom in free space is studied in semiclassical and quantum approaches. It is shown that the final state of the field does not contain doubly occupied modes.…

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We describe the light-matter interaction of a single two level atom with the electromagnetic vacuum in terms of field and dipole variables by considering homodyne detection of the emitted fields. Spontaneous emission is then observed as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger F. Hofmann , Ortwin Hess , Guenter Mahler

The behavior of an atomic system is influenced by introducing a metallic surface. This work explores how the decay landscape can be altered by the presence of sharp corners. We examine two scenarios: the modified spontaneous decay of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Romuald Kilianski , Robert Bennett

We study the temporal evolution of a three-level system (such as an atom or a molecule), initially prepared in an excited state, bathed in a laser field tuned at the transition frequency of the other level. The features of the spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Facchi , S. Pascazio

The generation and manipulation of entanglement between isolated particles has precipitated rapid progress in quantum information processing. Entanglement is also known to play an essential role in the optical properties of atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Gabriel Araneda , Daniel B. Higginbottom , Lukáš Slodička , Yves Colombe , Rainer Blatt

The dynamics of an initially excited two-level atom in a lossy cavity is studied by using the quantum trajectory method. Unwanted losses are included, such as photon absorption and scattering by the cavity mirrors and spontaneous emission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-18 C. Di Fidio , W. Vogel , M. Khanbekyan , D. -G. Welsch

In quantum field theory it is believed that the spontaneous decay of excited atomic or molecular level is due to the interaction with continuum of field modes. Besides, the atom makes a transition from upper level to lower one so that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-22 E. A. Ianovich

Atom-field interactions near optical interfaces have a wide range of applications in quantum technology. Motivated by this, this paper revisits the spontaneous emission of atomic dipoles in the presence of a two sided semi-transparent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Benjamin Dawson , Nicholas Furtak-Wells , Thomas Mann , Gin Jose , Almut Beige

We investigate the spontaneous emission of a two-level system, e.g. an atom or atomlike object, coupled to a single-end, i.e., semi-infinite, one-dimensional photonic waveguide such that one end behaves as a perfect mirror while light can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-23 T. Tufarelli , F. Ciccarello , M. S. Kim

We theoretically investigate signatures of stimulated emission at the single photon level for a two-level atom interacting with a one-dimensional light field. We consider the transient regime where the atom is initially excited, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 D. Valente , S. Portolan , G. Nogues , J. P. Poizat , M. Richard , J. M. Gérard , M. F. Santos , A. Auffèves

In this paper we investigate how the dynamics of a two-level atom is affected by its interaction with the quantized near field of a plasmonic slab in relative motion. We demonstrate that for small separation distances and a relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Sylvain Lannebère , Mário G. Silveirinha

It is a well known fact that non-trivial boundary conditions affect the interaction between atoms and the always present quantized electromagnetic field. In this paper, we focus on how the spontaneous emission rate of a given excited atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 F. S. S. Rosa , T. N. C. Mendes , A. Tenorio , C. Farina

Spontaneous emission of the quantum system driven by a high intensity classical laser field is analyzed. The study is based on the accurate consideration of quantum system interaction with vacuum quantized field modes in the first order of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 A. V. Bogatskaya , E. A. Volkova , A. M. Popov

After giving a summary of the basic-theoretical concept of quantization of the electromagnetic field in the presence of dispersing and absorbing (macroscopic) bodies, their effect on spontaneous decay of an excited atom is studied. Various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Ho Trung Dung , Ludwig Knöll , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

The time-dependent electromagnetic field can results both pair waves and pair particles. It can be for mathematical relations between two functions with identical argument and difference of phases equal to $\pi$. Two examples both the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Evgueni V. Kovarski

We investigate (non-relativistic) atomic systems interacting with quantum electromagnetic field (QEF). The resulting model describes spontaneous emission of light from a two-level atom surrounded by various initial states of the QEF. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Marecki , N. Szpak

It is well known that the vicinities of an atomic system may substantially affect its radiative properties. In this work, we consider the influence of a cosmic string background in the spontaneous emission of an excited atom. We start by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Lucas Weitzel , Y. Muniz , C. Farina , Carlos A. D. Zarro

We introduce a simple model for electromagnetically induced transparency in which all fields are treated quantum mechanically. We study a system of three separated atoms at fixed positions in a one-dimensional multimode optical cavity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Thomas Purdy , Martin Ligare

The fundamental processes of absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission, and elastic as well as inelastic scattering involving light and atoms, molecules, and nano-particles have been studied for decades using both classical and…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-10 Masud Mansuripur

In this article we theoretically study the phase shift a single atom imprints onto a coherent state light beam in free space. The calculations are performed in a semiclassical framework. The key parameters governing the interaction and thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Markus Sondermann , Gerd Leuchs
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