Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: We investigate the effect of the cumulative phase on the photon statistics of the three-mode state whose evolution is described by the trilinear Hamiltonian ${\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{H}}_{I}=i\ensuremath{\hbar}\ensuremath{\kappa}\left(\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{a}\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{b}{\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{c}}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}\ensuremath{-}{\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{a}}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}{\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{b}}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}c\right)$, wherein the pump is taken to be quantized (and prepared in a coherent state) and the signal and idler modes are initially seeded with coherent states. We provide a brief review of the two-mode squeezed coherent states generated by nondegenerate coherently stimulated parametric down-conversion, whereby the nonlinear crystal is driven by a strong classical field. The statistics of the resulting two-mode state have been shown to depend greatly on the cumulative phase $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Phi}}={\ensuremath{\theta}}_{s}+{\ensuremath{\theta}}_{i}\ensuremath{-}2\ensuremath{\phi}$ where ${\ensuremath{\theta}}_{s\left(i\right)}$ are the signal(idler) coherent state phases and $2\ensuremath{\phi}$ is the classical pump phase. Using perturbation theory, we analytically show for short times how the photon statistics and entanglement properties of the resultant state depends strictly on this phase combination. We also present numerical results of the relevant quantities to show the evolution of the three modes and provide a qualitative analysis of the near-thermal-like nature of the steady state valid for long times. Finally, we examine the effect of the cumulative phase $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Phi}}$ on the correlations between the bipartite system of pump and signal/idler modes, and the effect of the quantized pump on the correlations between signal and idler modes.
Source: Physical Review A
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G2248465921
OpenAlex ID: W2981606682