The asymmetric quantum Rabi model in the polaron picture

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA56F6MaRDI QIDQ2969883zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maoxin Liu, Zu-Jian Ying, Jun-Hong An, Hong-Gang Luo, Hai-Qin Lin

Publication date 23 March 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06658

zbMATH Keywords

wave functionquantum physicsquantum Rabi model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

Abstract: The concept of the polaron in condensed matter physics has been extended to the Rabi model, where polarons resulting from the coupling between a two-level system and single-mode photons represent two oppositely displaced oscillators. Interestingly, tunneling between these two displaced oscillators can induce an anti-polaron, which has not been systematically explored in the literature, especially in the presence of an asymmetric term. In this paper, we present a systematic analysis of the competition between the polaron and anti-polaron under the interplay of the coupling strength and the asymmetric term. While intuitively the anti-polaron should be secondary owing to its higher potential energy, we find that, under certain conditions, the minor anti-polaron may gain a reversal in the weight over the major polaron. If the asymmetric amplitude $epsilon$ is smaller than the harmonic frequency $omega$, such an overweighted anti-polaron can occur beyond a critical value of the coupling strength $g$; if $epsilon$ is larger, the anti-polaron can even be always overweighted at any $g$. We propose that the explicit occurrence of the overweighted anti-polaron can be monitored by a displacement transition from negative to positive values. This displacement is an experimentally accessible observable, which can be measured by quantum optical methods, such as balanced Homodyne detection.

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