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Phys Rev Lett. 2015 Jun 12;114(23):233602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.233602. Epub 2015 Jun 11.

Environment-Assisted Speed-up of the Field Evolution in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics.

Physical review letters

A D Cimmarusti, Z Yan, B D Patterson, L P Corcos, L A Orozco, S Deffner

Affiliations

  1. Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
  2. State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
  3. Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

PMID: 26196802 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.233602

Abstract

We measure the quantum speed of the state evolution of the field in a weakly driven optical cavity QED system. To this end, the mode of the electromagnetic field is considered as a quantum system of interest with a preferential coupling to a tunable environment: the atoms. By controlling the environment, i.e., changing the number of atoms coupled to the optical cavity mode, an environment-assisted speed-up is realized: the quantum speed of the state repopulation in the optical cavity increases with the coupling strength between the optical cavity mode and this non-Markovian environment (the number of atoms).

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