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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Signatures of chaoticlike and nonchaoticlike behavior in a nonlinear quantum oscillator through photon detection
M J Everitt1, T D Clark, P B Stiffell
1The British University in Egypt, El Sherouk City, Misr Ismalia Desert Road, Postal No. 11837 P.O. Box 43, Egypt. m.j.everitt@physics.org
Abstract:
The driven nonlinear Duffing oscillator is a very good, and standard, example of a quantum mechanical system from which classical-like orbits can be recovered from unravelings of the master equation. In order to generate such trajectories in the phase space of this oscillator, in this paper we use the quantum jump unraveling together with a suitable application of the correspondence principle. We analyze the measured readout by considering the power spectra of photon counts produced by the quantum jumps. Here we show that localization of the wave packet from the measurement of the oscillator by the photon detector produces a concomitant structure in the power spectra of the measured output. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this spectral analysis can be used to distinguish between different modes of the underlying dynamics of the oscillator.
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