Photon exchange and entanglement formation during the transmission through a rectangular quantum barrier
arXiv:1410.4756 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2015.05.010
Abstract
When a quantum particle traverses a rectangular potential created by a quantum field both photon exchange and entanglement between particle and field take place. We present analytic results for the transition amplitudes of any possible photon exchange processes for an incoming plane wave and initial Fock, thermal and coherent field states. We show that for coherent field states the entanglement correlates the particle's position to the photon number in the field instead of the particle's energy as usual. Besides entanglement formation, remarkable differences to the classical field treatment also appear with respect to the symmetry between photon emission and absorption, resonance effects and if the field initially occupies the vacuum state.
arXiv comment6 pages (double column), 6 figures
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