Solving the scattering of N photons on a two-level atom without computation

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/18/9/093035MaRDI QIDQ5855092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexandre Roulet, Valerio Scarani

Publication date 12 March 2021

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02804

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Quantum dots, waveguides, ratchets, etc. (81Q37) Atomic physics (81V45) Quantum waveguides, quantum wires (82D77)

Abstract: We propose a novel approach for solving the scattering of light onto a two-level atom coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. We first express the physical quantity of interest in terms of Feynman diagrams and treat the atom as a non-saturable linear beamsplitter. By using the atomic response to our advantage, a relevant substitution is then made that captures the nonlinearity of the atom, and the final result is obtained in terms of simple integrals over the initial incoming wavepackets. The procedure is not limited to post-scattering quantities and allows for instance to derive the atomic excitation during the scattering event.

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