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Phys. Rev. A 80, 053810 (2009) [5 pages]

Extracavity quantum vacuum radiation from a single qubit

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S. De Liberato1,2, D. Gerace3, I. Carusotto4, and C. Ciuti1,*
1Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 and CNRS, UMR 7162, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
2Hypios Research Department, 187 rue du Temple, 75003 Paris, France
3CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta,” Università di Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
4BEC-CNR-INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, I-38050 Povo, Italy

Received 17 June 2009; published 9 November 2009

We present a theory of the quantum vacuum radiation that is generated by a fast modulation of the vacuum Rabi frequency of a single two-level system strongly coupled to a single cavity mode. The dissipative dynamics of the Jaynes-Cummings model in the presence of antirotating-wave terms is described by a generalized master equation including non-Markovian terms. Peculiar spectral properties and significant extracavity quantum vacuum radiation output are predicted for state-of-the-art circuit cavity quantum electrodynamics systems with superconducting qubits.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.053810
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.80.053810
PACS:
42.50.Pq, 03.70.+k

*cristiano.ciuti@univ-paris-diderot.fr