Ancilla-assisted generation of photons from vacuum via time-modulation of extracavity qubit

We propose a scheme for the generation of photons from a vacuum via time-modulation of a quantum system indirectly coupled to the cavity field through some ancilla quantum subsystem. We consider the simplest case when the modulation is applied to an artificial two-level atom (we call ‘t-qubit’, that...

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Autores: Paula, Marcos Vinícius Silva de, Sinésio, William Wenner Teixeira, Dodonov, Alexandre
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositório:Repositório Institucional da UnB
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unb.br:10482/46962
Acesso em linha:http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/46962
https://doi.org/10.3390/e25060901
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4288-5399
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5291-657X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7142-7453
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Fóton
Modulação temporal
Física quântica
Descrição
Resumo:We propose a scheme for the generation of photons from a vacuum via time-modulation of a quantum system indirectly coupled to the cavity field through some ancilla quantum subsystem. We consider the simplest case when the modulation is applied to an artificial two-level atom (we call ‘t-qubit’, that can be located even outside the cavity), while the ancilla is a stationary qubit coupled via the dipole interaction both to the cavity and t-qubit. We find that tripartite entangled states with a small number of photons can be generated from the system ground state under resonant modulations, even when the t-qubit is far detuned from both the ancilla and the cavity, provided its bare and modulation frequencies are properly adjusted. We attest our approximate analytic results by numeric simulations and show that photon generation from vacuum persists in the presence of common dissipation mechanisms.