Unlocking multiphoton emission from a single-photon source through mean-field engineering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10441v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:59:18 GMT
• Title: Unlocking multiphoton emission from a single-photon source through mean-field engineering
• Authors: Sang Kyu Kim, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Katarina Boos, Friedrich Sbresny, Carolin Calcagno, Hubert Riedl, Jonathan J. Finley, Carlos Antón-Solanas, Fabrice P. Laussy, Kai Müller, Lukas Hanschke, Elena del Valle,
• Abstract summary: In quantum mechanics, multiphoton emission can turn out to be even more fundamental and interesting than the single-photon emission. We show how one can control the multiphoton dynamics of a two-level system by disrupting quantum interferences.
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• Abstract: Single-photon emission from a two-level system offers promising perspectives for the development of quantum technologies, where multiphotons are generally regarded as accidental, undesired and should be suppressed. In quantum mechanics, however, multiphoton emission can turn out to be even more fundamental and interesting than the single-photon emission, since in a coherently driven system, the multiphoton suppression arises from quantum interferences between virtual multiphoton fluctuations and the mean field in a Poisson superposition of all number states. Here, we demonstrate how one can control the multiphoton dynamics of a two-level system by disrupting these quantum interferences through a precise and independent homodyne control of the mean field. We show that, counterintuitively, quantum fluctuations always play a major qualitative role, even and in fact especially, when their quantitative contribution is vanishing as compared to that of the mean field. Our findings provide new insights into the paradoxical character of quantum mechanics and open pathways for mean-field engineering as a tool for precision multiphoton control.

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