Moyal phase-space analysis of nonlinear optical Kerr media

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/41/415302MaRDI QIDQ3654289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. A. Osborn, Karl-Peter Marzlin

Publication date 5 January 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3530

zbMATH Keywords

Kerr mediaMoyal equation of motionnon-linear quantum opticsquantum phase space methodWeyl symbol

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: Nonlinear optical media of Kerr type are described by a particular version of an anharmonic quantum harmonic oscillator. The dynamics of this system can be described using the Moyal equations of motion, which correspond to a quantum phase space representation of the Heisenberg equations of motion. For the Kerr system we derive exact solutions of the Moyal equations for a complete set of observables formed from the photon creation and annihilation operators. These Moyal solutions incorporate the asymptotics of the classical limit in a simple explicit form. An unusual feature of these solutions is that they exhibit periodic singularities in the time variable. These singularities are removed by the phase space averaging required to construct the expectation value for an arbitrary initial state. Nevertheless, for strongly number-squeezed initial states the effects of the singularity remain observable.

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