Light with tunable non-Markovian phase imprint

Abstract

We introduce a simple and flexible method to generate spatially non-Markovian light with tunable coherence properties in one and two dimensions. The unusual behavior of this light is demonstrated experimentally by probing the far field and recording its diffraction pattern after a double slit: In both cases we observe instead of a central intensity maximum a line or cross shaped dark region, whose width and profile depend on the non-Markovian coherence properties. Since these properties can be controlled and easily reproduced in experiment, the presented approach lends itself to serve as a testbed to gain a deeper understanding of non-Markovian processes.

References in corpus (6)

• An Open-System Quantum Simulator with Trapped Ions
• Creating and probing macroscoping entanglement with light
• Observation of non-Markovian micro-mechanical Brownian motion
• Linear Optics Simulation of Non-Markovian Quantum Dynamics
• Non-Markovian Stochastic Resonance
• Optical pumping into many-body entanglement

Cited by in corpus (12)

• Customizing Speckle Intensity Statistics
• Creating and Controlling Complex Light
• Tailoring 3D Speckle Statistics
• Speckle engineering through singular value decomposition of the transmission matrix
• Introducing non-local correlations into speckles
• Superextreme Waves Generation in the Linear Regime
• Spectral ghost imaging camera with super-Rayleigh modulator
• Hyperuniformity in amorphous speckle patterns
• Generation of long-living entanglement between two distant three-level atoms in non-Markovian environments
• Non-Markovianity in High-Dimensional Open Quantum Systems using Next-generation Multicore Optical Fibers
• A simple study of the correlation effects in the superposition of waves of electric fields: the emergence of extreme events
• Non-Markovian dynamics for a two-atom-coupled system interacting with local reservoir at finite temperature