Nonlinear interaction of two photons with a one-dimensional atom : Spatiotemporal quantum coherence in the emitted field
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Kojima, Kunihiro
Takeuchi, Shigeki
Sasaki, Keiji
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abstract | The nonlinear photon-photon interaction mediated by a single two-level atom is studied theoretically based on a one-dimensional model of the field-atom interaction. This model allows us to determine the effects of an atomic nonlinearity on the spatiotemporal coherence of a two-photon state. Specifically, the complete twophoton output wave function can be obtained for any two-photon input wave function. It is shown that the quantum interference between the components of the output state associated with different interaction processes causes bunching and antibunching in the two-photon statistics. This theory may be useful for various applications in photon manipulation, e.g., quantum information processing using photonic qubits, quantum nondemolition measurements, and the generation of entangled photons.
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journal title |
Physical Review A. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
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volume | Volume 68
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issue | Issue 1
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start page | 013803-1
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end page | 013803-13
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date of issued | 2003-07-02
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publisher | American Physical Society
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issn | 1094-1622
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eng
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Journal Article
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HU type |
Journal Articles
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DCMI type | text
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format | application/pdf
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text version | publisher
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rights | Copyright (c) 2003 American Physical Society.
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Graduate School of Advanced Sciences of Matter
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