Exotic States in the Dynamical Casimir Effect

Abstract

We consider the interaction of a qubit with a single mode of the quantized electromagnetic field and show that, in the ultrastrong coupling regime and when the qubit-field interaction is switched on abruptly, the dynamical Casimir effect leads to the generation of a variety of exotic states of the field, which cannot be simply described as squeezed states. Such effect also appears when initially both the qubit and the field are in their ground state. The non-classicality of the obtained exotic states is characterized by means of a parameter based on the volume of the negative part of the Wigner function. A transition to non-classical states is observed by changing either the interaction strength or the interaction time. The observed phenomena appear as a general feature of nonadiabatic quantum gates, so that the dynamical Casimir effect can be the origin of a fundamental upper limit to the maximum speed of quantum computation and communication protocols.

5 pages, 4 figures

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