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Study of the spin kitten states in a strongly coupled spin-oscillator system

arXiv:2004.01187 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.063703

Abstract

Utilizing an adiabatic approximation method a bipartite qudit-oscillator Hamiltonian is explicitly studied for low spin values in both strong and ultrastrong coupling regimes. The quasiprobability densities on the hybrid factorized phase space are introduced. Integrating over a sector of the composite phase space, the quasiprobability distributions of the complementary subsystem are recovered. In the strong coupling regime the qudit entropy displays a pattern of quasiperiodic collapses and revivals, where the locally minimum nonzero configurations appearing at rational fractions of the revival time correspond to the spin kitten states. Starting with a bipartite factorizable initial state the evolution to the nonclassical transitory spin kitten states are displayed via the diagonal spin PQ-representation. The formation of transient spin kitten states is further substantiated by constructing the spin tomogram that employs the positive definite probability distributions embodying the diagonal elements of the corresponding density matrix in an arbitrarily rotated frame. As another manifestation of nonclassicality the emergence of the spin squeezed states during the bipartite evolution is observed. In the ultrastrong coupling domain a large number of interaction dependent modes and their harmonics are generated. The consequent randomization of the phases eliminates the quasiperiodicity of the system which is now driven towards a stabilization of the entropy accompanied with stochastic fluctuations around its stabilized value. Both in the strong and ultrastrong coupling realms antibunching of the photoemission events are realized particularly for the small spin values.

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