Microscopic toy model for the cavity dynamical Casimir effect

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/24/245302zbMATH Open1318.81066arXiv1504.02413OpenAlexW1571461106MaRDI QIDQ5261657FDOQ5261657

A. V. Dodonov, I. M. de Sousa

Publication date: 6 July 2015

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

Abstract: We develop a microscopic toy model for Cavity dynamical Casimir effect (DCE), namely, the photon generation from vacuum due to a nonstationary dielectric slab in a fixed single mode cavity. We represent the slab by $Ngg1$ noninteracting two-level atoms coupled to the field via the standard dipole interaction. We show that the DCE is contained implicitly in the light-matter interaction Hamiltonian when its parameters are externally prescribed functions of time. We also predict several new phenomena, such as saturation of the photon growth due to effective Kerr nonlinearity, generation of pairs of atomic excitations instead of photons ("Inverse DCE") and coherent annihilation of pair of system excitations due to the atomic modulation ("Anti-DCE"). These results are extended to the circuit QED architecture, where similar effects can be implemented with a single qubit providing an alternative way to generate cavity and atom-field entangled states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02413

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamical Casimir effectsqueezingKerr effecttoy modelphoton generation from vacuumanti-dynamical Casimir effectnonstationary circuit QED

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Coherent states (81R30) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Casimir effect in quantum field theory (81T55)

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