Dynamic properties of atomic collective decay in cavity quantum electrodynamics

We theoretically study the collective decay of two atoms trapped in a single mode cavity and we describe the evolution of the population of Dicke states. We show that the collective decay property is strongly dependent on the phase of atomic radiation and the speeding up of collective decay can only be observed in a bad cavity regime. For in-or out-phase case,this occurs due to the quantum interference enhancement, no matter which atom is excited initially. For π/2 phase, the speeding up of collective decay takes place if the first atom is excited at the beginning. However, it disappears due to the quantum interference cancellation if the second atom is excited. Compared with the in-phase and out-phase cases,we also show that the speeding up of collective decay can be significantly enhanced in strong coupling regime for π/2 phase, although one atom is decoupled to the cavity in this condition. The study presented here is helpful to understand the physical mechanism of collective decay in cavity quantum electrodynamics and it provides a useful method to control the collective decay phenomenon via quantum interference effect.

Polarization Conversion of Single Photon via Scattering by a Λ System in a Semi-Infinite Waveguide

We theoretically investigate single-photon polarization conversion via scattering by an atom with Λ configuration coupled to a semi-infinite waveguide and discuss the two cases in which the Λ system is non-degenerated and degenerated. By applying the hard-wall boundary condition of the semi-infinite waveguide, it is found that singlephoton polarization conversion can be realized with unit probability for both cases under the ideal condition.Together with the polarization conversion, the frequency conversion of a single photon can also be realized with unit probability in the ideal case if the Λ system is not degenerated.

Fano interference and transparency in a waveguide-nanocavity hybrid system with an auxiliary cavity

We investigate theoretically single photon transport in one-dimensional waveguide coupled to a pair of cavities,which are denoted by the first cavity and the auxiliary cavity.Two cases with no atom and one atom embedded in the first cavity are discussed.The Fano dips in the transmission spectrum and locations of transparency window are calculated.When no atom is embedded in the first cavity,there exists a transparency window under the condition that the first cavity and the auxiliary cavity are not resonant.The locations of the transparency window and Fano line type depend strongly on the eigen frequency of the auxiliary cavity and the coupling strength between the auxiliary cavity and the waveguide.When one atom is embedded in the first cavity,we show that the transparency window exists even though the first cavity,the atom and the auxiliary cavity are resonant.The Fano line type is strongly dependent on the eigen frequency of the auxiliary cavity and the coupling strength.Our results have potential applications in design of quantum devices at the level of single photon,such as single photon switch and single photon routers.

Coherent Controlling Single Photon Asymmetric Transmission in the Atom Chirally Coupled Waveguide System

We theoretically investigate the influences of two coherent driving fields on the asymmetric transmission of single photon in the atom-waveguide system.The atom is considered as a A system.One transition of the atom chirally couples to the waveguide.The other transition is driven by two coherent driving fields.The transmission probabilities for the single photon incidents from the left(T_(lr)) and right(Tlr) are given respectively.The calculated results show that one can realize Tlr=0(Tlr≠0) or Tlr=0(Tlr≠0) by manipulating the phase difference between the two coherent driving Relds.The influence of the decay rate of the metastable state on the asymmetric transmission is also discussed.