Gauge-independent emission spectra and quantum correlations in the ultrastrong coupling regime of open system cavity-QED

A quantum dipole interacting with an optical cavity is one of the key models in cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity-QED). To treat this system theoretically, the typical approach is to truncate the dipole to two levels. However, it has been shown that in the ultrastrong-coupling regime, this trun...

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Autores: Salmon, Will, Gustin, Chris, Settineri, Alessio, Di Stefano, Omar, Zueco, David, Savasta, Salvatore, Nori, Franco, Hughes, Stephen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/280306
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/280306
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cavity-QED
Gauge invariance
Master equations
Open systems
Quantum Rabi model
Ultrastrong coupling
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Sumario:A quantum dipole interacting with an optical cavity is one of the key models in cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity-QED). To treat this system theoretically, the typical approach is to truncate the dipole to two levels. However, it has been shown that in the ultrastrong-coupling regime, this truncation naively destroys gauge invariance. By truncating in a manner consistent with the gauge principle, we introduce master equations for open systems to compute gauge-invariant emission spectra, photon flux rates, and quantum correlation functions which show significant disagreement with previous results obtained using the standard quantum Rabi model. Explicit examples are shown using both the dipole gauge and the Coulomb gauge.