Photon Squeezing in Photonic Time Crystals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05043v1
• Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 13:28:01 GMT
• Title: Photon Squeezing in Photonic Time Crystals
• Authors: Jaime Echave-Sustaeta, Francisco J. García-Vidal, P. A. Huidobro,
• Abstract summary: Time-varying media offer a platform to realize novel and exotic wave effects. We focus on the quantum electrodynamical properties of time-varying media, in particular vacuum amplification and squeezing.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Time-varying media offer a platform to realize novel and exotic wave effects, including photonic time crystals characterized by momentum band gaps with exponential wave amplification. Here we focus on the quantum electrodynamical properties of time-varying media, in particular vacuum amplification and squeezing. For that purpose, we present a theory of photon pair generation in photonic time crystals that unveils the link between the classical and quantum electrodynamical properties of these systems, that is, a direct relation between reflectivity and pair generation through the squeezing parameter. By working within an Hermitian framework, we are able to characterize quantum pair generation processes in photonic time crystals, showing how momentum bandgaps result in a non-resonant exponential enhancement of dynamical Casimir processes.

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