Input-output formalism for few-photon transport in one-dimensional nanophotonic waveguides coupled to a qubit

By Shanhui Fan, cSukru Ekin Kocabacs, Jung-Tsung Shen. 2010

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We extend the input-output formalism of quantum optics to analyze few-photon transport in waveguides with an embedded qubit. We provide explicit analytical derivations for one- and two-photon scattering matrix elements based on operator equations in the Heisenberg picture.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits (2017, background): “With this in mind, transport of one [78, 261, 601, 657, 732, 733, 736], two [261, 601, 732, 736], and more [735] photons has been studied anew, suggesting applications like a photon diode [261, 732], a single-photon router [261], a”
Colloquium: Strongly interacting photons in one-dimensional continuum (2016, methodology): “(A5) with respect to k and introduce a field operator Φ(t) = bR,in(t)− i V 2vg σ−(t), (A6) where Φ(t) = (1/ √ 2π) ∫ dkaR,k(t), and an input operator (Fan et al., 2010) bR,in(t) = 1√ 2π ∫ dk aR,k(t0)e −ivgk(t−t0).”
Dynamics of non-Markovian open quantum systems (2015, background): “Recently, it was also extended to describe few-photon transport, considering a waveguide with a single atom (Fan et al., 2010) and many spatially distributed atoms (Caneva et al., 2015).”