Strong quantum correlations of light emitted by a single atom in free space
arXiv:2004.01993 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.104.013724
Abstract
We present a novel approach to engineer the photon correlations emerging from the interference between an input field and the field scattered by a single atom in free space. Nominally, the inefficient atom-light coupling causes the quantum correlations to be dominated by the input field alone. To overcome this issue, we propose the use of separate pump and probe beams, where the former increases the atomic emission to be comparable to the probe. Examining the second-order correlation function of the total field in the probe direction, we find that the addition of the pump formally plays the same role as increasing the coupling efficiency. We show that one can tune the correlation function from zero (perfect anti-bunching) to infinite (extreme bunching) by a proper choice of pump amplitude. We further elucidate the origin of these correlations in terms of the transient atomic state following the detection of a photon.
arXiv comment6 pages and 4 figures in the main text + 1 page of supplemental material
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