Closing Optical Bloch Equations in waveguide QED: Dynamics, Energetics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09648v2
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:57:08 GMT
• Title: Closing Optical Bloch Equations in waveguide QED: Dynamics, Energetics
• Authors: Samyak Pratyush Prasad, Maria Maffei, Patrice A. Camati, Cyril Elouard, Alexia Auffèves,
• Abstract summary: We study the unitary evolution of a closed, isolated atom-field system. The joint atom-field system forms a "one-dimensional atom" We show that the closed and the open approaches only differ by the atom self-work.
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• Abstract: Optical Bloch Equations (OBE) model the dynamics of a classically driven two-level atom coupled to a thermal electromagnetic field. From a global viewpoint, they derive from the unitary evolution of a closed, isolated atom-field system. We study the emergence of the OBE in the case where the driving and the thermal fields are confined in one spatial dimension -- a situation usually found in waveguide-QED. The joint atom-field system forms a "one-dimensional atom" (1D atom) whose closed dynamics can be solved, providing access to light-matter correlations. Such closure of the OBE unveils a new term capturing the driving of the atom by itself, or self-drive, which is proportional to the atom coherences in the energy basis. A 1D atom also constitutes an autonomous, energy-conserving system. Hence, energy exchanges between the atom and the field can be conveniently analyzed as closed first laws, where work-like (heat-like) flows stem from effective unitaries (correlations) exerted by one system on the other. We show that the closed and the open approaches only differ by the atom self-work, which yields a tighter expression of the second law. We quantitatively relate this tightening to the extra-knowledge acquired by closing the OBE. The concepts and effects we introduce deepen our understanding of thermodynamics in the quantum regime and its potential for energy management at quantum scales. They can be probed in state-of-the-art quantum hardware, e.g. superconducting and photonic circuits.

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