2010/02/16 by M. Stobińska, Stobińska, M., G. Alber +3
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1002.3059
To be published in Advances in Quantum Chemistry, volume: Unstable States in the Continuous Spectra, edited by Cleanthes A. Nicolaides (Elsevier Inc.), 15 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2010/02/16 · arxiv created 2010/05/02 · arxiv updated 2010/05/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this contribution we investigate quantum electrodynamical many-mode aspects by exploring the simplest possible situation in this context, namely the interaction of a single atom, modeled by a simple two-level system, with many-mode one-photon quantum states of the electromagnetic field. In particular, we concentrate on the question how the engineering of electromagnetic field modes influences the atom-field interaction. An interesting problem in this context is the engineering of ideal one-photon multi-mode quantum states which may excite a single atom perfectly [M. Stobińska, G. Alber, and G. Leuchs, EPL \bf 86, 14007 (2009)]. For purposes of quantum information processing such one-photon multi-mode states are particularly well suited for transmitting quantum information and for storing it in a material memory again.