Photon emission without quantum jumps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01702v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:23:16 GMT
• Title: Photon emission without quantum jumps
• Abstract summary: We show that the dynamics of an emitter in the free radiation field can be described without imposing quantum jumps.<n>Our approach is nevertheless consistent with quantum optical master equations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: When modelling photon emission, we often assume that emitters experience random quantum jumps. When a quantum jump occurs the emitter transitions suddenly into a lower energy level, while spontaneously generating a single photon. However, this point of view is misleading when modelling, for example, quantum optical systems which rely on far-field interference effects for applications like distributed quantum computing and quantum sensing. In this paper, we show that the dynamics of an emitter in the free radiation field can be described without imposing quantum jumps by instead using a Schroedinger equation based on a locally-acting Hermitian Hamiltonian. Our approach is nevertheless consistent with quantum optical master equations.

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