Modern Challenges in Quantum Optics

Selected Papers of the First International Meeting in Quantum Optics, Held in Santiago, Chile, 13-16 August 2000

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Quantum Optics is a rapidly progressing field well suited to probe the many fundamental issues raised by the subtleties of quantum physics. This book consists of a collection of reviews and papers that highlight the most important challenges faced in this area of research, including topics such as cavity QED, quantum entanglement, decoherence, matter waves and nonlinear optics. It will be a source of reference for all those who wish to familiarize themselves with the latest developments in the field.

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Trapped Ions and Cavity QED
Generation of Fock States in the One-Atom Maser	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
The One-Atom Maser and the Generation of Fock-States Using Trapping States	p. 4
Dynamical Preparation of Number States in a Cavity	p. 7
Preparation of Fock States on Demand	p. 9
Conclusion	p. 12
References	p. 13
Coherent Manipulation of Two Trapped Ions with Bichromatic Light	p. 14
Introduction	p. 14
Dispersive Interaction	p. 15
The model	p. 15
Bell states	p. 18
Reliable teleportation	p. 19
Wigner function of the collective motion	p. 21
Selective Interaction	p. 22
Resonant Interaction	p. 25
Conditional vibrational displacement	p. 25
Motional Schrödinger's cat states	p. 26
Motional squeezed states	p. 27
Conclusions	p. 27
Acknowledgments	p. 27
References	p. 28
Quantum Nondemolition Measurement and Quantum State Manipulation in Two Dimensional Trapped Ion	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Description of the Model	p. 31
Properties of the Model	p. 32
QND Measurement of Vibrational Quanta	p. 35
Quantum State Manipulation	p. 36
Generation of a bimodal Fock state	p. 36
Generation of entangled superposition of Fock states	p. 38
Generation of a pair coherent state	p. 39
Conclusion	p. 41
References	p. 41
Phonon-Photon Translation with a Trapped Ion in a Cavity	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
The Model for a Phonon-Photon Translator	p. 44
Information Transfer	p. 46
Numerical Simulation	p. 49
Discussion	p. 52
The Model for an Ion Trap Laser Producing Transfer of Squeezing	p. 53
Semiclassical Aproximation	p. 56
Numerical Results	p. 58
References	p. 61
Quantum Interference, Entanglement, Decoherence and Quantum Computing
Decoherence, Pointer Engineering and Quantum State Protection	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
Strategy for Quantum State Protection	p. 66
Application to a Trapped Ion	p. 67
Hamiltonian of the system	p. 67
Master equation for the center-of-mass motion	p. 68
Effect of random fields	p. 70
Protection of superpositions of Fock states	p. 72
Protection of a qubit	p. 73
Protection of approximate phase eigenstates	p. 74
Superpositions of coherent states	p. 74
Protection of squeezed states	p. 76
Conclusion	p. 76
References	p. 78
High Efficiency in Detection of Photonic Qubits	p. 80
Introduction	p. 80
Mode Structure of a System of Two-Cavities	p. 81
Photon Wavepacket Absorption	p. 84
Generation of Photonic Qubits with Three-Level A Atoms	p. 87
Summary and Further Applications	p. 92
References	p. 94
Macroscopic Entanglement and Relative Phase	p. 95
Introduction	p. 95
Single Histories with Arbitrary Detection Efficiency	p. 96
Perfect detection efficiency	p. 96
Imperfect detection efficiency	p. 98
Single Boson Mode	p. 98
Arbitrary state	p. 98
Fixed amplitude	p. 100
Master Equation for Two Boson Modes	p. 101
Two representations	p. 101
Correlations created by observation	p. 102
Initial States with Fixed Amplitudes	p. 103
Separation of total number and relative phase	p. 103
Coherent states	p. 105
Uniform phase distribution	p. 105
Conclusions	p. 108
References	p. 109
	p. 110
Introduction and Brief Summary of Decoherence Theory	p. 110
Dynamical Casimir Effect	p. 114
Decoherence and the Casimir Effect	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 122
References	p. 123
Control of Cold Atomic Collisions by Multiparticle Entanglement and a Modified Vacuum in Cavity QED	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Cold Collisions and Cavity QED	p. 126
Radiative escape collisions	p. 126
CavityQED	p. 128
Collisional Dynamics in a Cavity	p. 129
Multiparticle entanglement	p. 129
Control of cold collisions by a modified vacuum	p. 131
Collective decay rate	p. 132
Trap-loss probabilities	p. 134
Orders of magnitude	p. 135
Conclusion	p. 136
References	p. 136
Decoherence Evolution of a Harmonic Oscillator	p. 138
Introduction	p. 138
Stable Quantum States	p. 139
The Onset of Unstabilities	p. 141
Analytical Solutions for the Linear Entropy	p. 145
A reservoir at a finite temperature	p. 150
Finite temperature entropy for a coherent state	p. 151
Finite temperature entropy for a Schrodinger cat	p. 153
Conclusions	p. 155
Acknowledgments	p. 156
References	p. 156
Non-linear Optics, Matter Waves
Atomic Squeezing and Entanglement from Bose-Einstein Condensates	p. 161
Introduction	p. 161
Entangled Atomic Beams	p. 162
Dicke States	p. 167
Atom-Photon Entanglement	p. 171
Conclusion	p. 175
References	p. 176
Atomic Coherence Effects in Doppler-Broadened Three-Level Systems with Standing-Wave Drive	p. 177
Introduction	p. 177
Semiclassical Density Matrix Analysis	p. 180
Dressed-Atom Analysis	p. 182
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency	p. 185
Amplification Without Inversion	p. 188
References	p. 193
Frequency Up-Conversion to the Vacuum Ultra-Violet in Coherently Prepared Media	p. 195
Introduction	p. 195
Review of Previous Work on EIT Enhanced Non-linear Mixing	p. 199
Theoretical Treatment of EIT Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing in Kr	p. 201
Experimental Investgation of EIT Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing in Kr	p. 203
Experimental system and results	p. 203
Discussion	p. 206
Further Developments and Conclusion	p. 209
References	p. 210
Optical Lattice Dynamics and Scattering Processes Resulting from Dipole-Dipole Interaction	p. 212
Introduction	p. 212
Atomic States in Optical Lattices	p. 213
The Dipole-Dipole Interaction in an Optical Lattice	p. 217
Hopping Within the Wannier Representation	p. 219
Atom-Atom Diffraction in 1D Optical Lattices	p. 220
Summary and Conclusions	p. 225
References	p. 225
Quantum Optics and Applications Time Delay and Tunneling	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
The Eisenbud-Wigner Time Delay	p. 229
Tunneling Time as Group Delay	p. 230
Critique of tunneling time as group delay	p. 231
The Larmor Times	p. 231
Stationary Dwell Time	p. 232
Remarks	p. 233
Other Approaches to Tunneling Time	p. 233
Modulation of the barrier or of the incident wave	p. 233
Conditional dwell time	p. 233
Path integrals	p. 234
Critique of the "Feynman" approach	p. 234
Average Wave Packet Dwell Time	p. 235
One-Dimensional Quantum Scattering Theory	p. 236
The time delay matrix	p. 237
New basis functions	p. 237
The Average One-Dimensional Wave Packet Dwell Time	p. 238
Average one-dimensional dwell time for a symmetric potential	p. 239
Rectangular Potential	p. 240
Average dwell time in tunneling	p. 240
Main Problems with Previous Treatments	p. 241
Ten Good Features of the Average Dwell Time	p. 241
References	p. 242
Giant Intensity-Intensity Correlations and Quantum Interference in a Driven Three-Level Atom	p. 244
Introduction	p. 244
The Three-Level Model: Both Transitions Excited	p. 246
Second-order correlation functions	p. 247
Distinguishable photons	p. 249
Indistinguishable photons	p. 250
Interpretation of the results	p. 251
Single-Transition Excitation	p. 253
Superposition dressed states	p. 255
Conclusions	p. 259
References	p. 259
A Cavity QED Test of Quantum Mechanics	p. 262
Introduction	p. 262
The Eigenstructure of the Driven Two-Level Atom in a Cavity	p. 264
Master Equation of the System	p. 266
The Autler-Townes Absorption Spectrum	p. 268
Population of the undriven level	p. 268
Population of the dressed states	p. 270
Autler-Townes Spectra	p. 271
Fixed number of photons	p. 271
Numerical results	p. 273
Summary	p. 277
References	p. 277
The Method of Quantum Jumps and Quantum White	p. 279
Introduction	p. 279
The Master Equation	p. 281
The Quantum Jump Method	p. 281
Quantum White Noise Integrals	p. 285
The Two Level Atom	p. 286
The Oscillator in an Atomic Heat Bath	p. 290
References	p. 293
Quantum Orbits in Intense-Laser Atom Physics	p. 294
Introduction	p. 294
The S Matrix for Ionization	p. 296
General formalism	p. 296
Approximation by quantum orbits	p. 299
Quantum orbits and the simple-man model	p. 300
Results	p. 302
Spectra for linear polarization	p. 302
Spectra for elliptical polarization	p. 302
Angular distributions for elliptical polarization	p. 303
Comparison to Experimental Data and Conclusions	p. 307
References	p. 308
Micromaser Dynamics	p. 310
Introduction and Background	p. 310
The Micromaser	p. 316
The Rotating and the Counter-rotating Wave Approximations	p. 321
Diagonalization of the Rabi Hamiltonian by Continued Fractions	p. 323
Transition Probabilities	p. 325
The Steady-State Photon Distribution	p. 327
The Atomic Inversion	p. 329
Trapping States	p. 332
Conclusions	p. 335
References	p. 335
What Is a Quantized Mode of a Leaky Cavity?	p. 338
Introduction	p. 338
Open Systems in Quantum Mechanics	p. 339
Quantum dissipation and the classical limit	p. 340
What Is a Mode of a Leaky Cavity?	p. 342
The classical answer	p. 342
Quasimodes in the quantum theory	p. 344
A Simple Model of a Leaky Cavity	p. 346
Fox-Li Modes as Natural Modes	p. 347
Sturm-Liouville with a Twist	p. 348
Quantum Theory	p. 350
Conclusions	p. 351
References	p. 352
The Quantum Jumps Approach for Infinitely Many States	p. 355
Introduction	p. 355
The Model	p. 358
The stochastic scheme	p. 358
Examples	p. 360
Case of Infinitely Many States	p. 362
Equivalence with the Master Equation	p. 366
Decomposition of the generator L into a jump and a damping parts	p. 366
Average over quantum trajectories	p. 367
Comments	p. 369
Stochastic Hamiltonians	p. 369
Comparison with Other Stochastic Schemes	p. 371
Quantum jump schemes	p. 371
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Modern Challenges in Quantum Optics

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