Laser-driven atoms in half-cavities
By U. Dorner, Peter Zoller. 2002
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The behavior of a two-level atom in a half-cavity, i.e., a cavity with one mirror, is studied within the framework of a one-dimensional model with respect to spontaneous decay and resonance fluorescence. The system under consideration corresponds to the setup of a recently performed experiment [J. Eschner et al., Nature (London) 413, 495 (2001)] where the influence of a mirror on a fluorescing single atom was revealed. In the present work special attention is paid to the regime of large atom-mirror distances where intrinsic memory effects can not longer be neglected. This is done with the help of delay-differential equations which contain, for small atom-mirror distances, the Markovian limit with effective level shifts and decay rates leading to the phenomenon of enhancement or inhibition of spontaneous decay. Several features are recovered beyond an effective Markovian treatment, appearing in experimentally accessible quantities like the intensity or emission spectra of the scattered light.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits (2017, background): “The first studies of an atom in front of a mirror were done for the 3D [712, 728] and quasi-1D [713, 726] cases (recently the quasi-1D setup with a rectangular waveguide has also been investigated [725]).”
- Giant acoustic atom: A single quantum system with a deterministic time delay (2016, background): “Other examples of simple systems that can exhibit time delay are a two-level atom in front of a mirror [23, 24, 28, 31] and two two-level atoms at a long distance from each other in an open transmission line [25, 27, 28, 32–35].”