Quantum fluctuations in a cavity-QED system with quantized center-of-mass motion

Journal Article · Wed Jun 15 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.83.063844· OSTI ID:21550225

Leach, J R ^[1]; Mumba, M ^[2]; Rice, P R ^[3]

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1. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 (United States)
3. Department of Physics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056 (United States)

We investigate the quantum fluctuations of a single atom in a weakly driven cavity where the center-of-mass motion of the atom is quantized in one dimension. We present analytic results for the second-order intensity correlation function g{sup (2)}({tau}) and the intensity-field correlation function h{sub {theta}}({tau}) for both transmitted and fluorescent light for weak driving fields. We find that the coupling of the center-of-mass motion to the intracavity field mode can be deleterious to nonclassical effects in photon statistics, but less so for the intensity-field correlations.

• OSTI ID: 21550225
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 83; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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