Cavity QED in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime: Photon Bunching from the Emission of Individual Dressed Qubits

Photon antibunching in the light scattered by single quantum emitters is one of the hallmarks of quantum optics, providing an unequivocal demonstration of the quantized nature of the electromagnetic field. Antibunching can be intuitively understood by the need for a two-level system lying in its low...

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Published inACS photonics Vol. 4; no. 9; pp. 2345 - 2351
Main Authors Garziano, Luigi, Ridolfo, Alessandro, De Liberato, Simone, Savasta, Salvatore
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published American Chemical Society 20.09.2017
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two-photon correlation function
ultrastrong coupling
cavity QED
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Summary:Photon antibunching in the light scattered by single quantum emitters is one of the hallmarks of quantum optics, providing an unequivocal demonstration of the quantized nature of the electromagnetic field. Antibunching can be intuitively understood by the need for a two-level system lying in its lower state after emitting a photon to be re-excited into the upper one before a second emission can take place. Here we show that such a picture breaks down in the ultrastrong light–matter coupling regime, when the coupling strength becomes comparable to the bare emitter frequency. Specializing to the cases of both a natural and an artificial atom, we thus show that a single emitter coupled to a photonic resonator can emit bunched light. The result presented herein is clear evidence of how the ultrastrong coupling regime is able to change the nature of individual atoms.
ISSN:2330-4022
2330-4022
DOI:10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00635