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量子干涉与例外点

Quantum interference and exceptional points

Stefano Longhi

摘要:

例外点(EPs),即非厄米哈密顿算子的分支点奇点,在光学中普遍存在。到目前为止,EP的签名主要是假设经典光进行研究。在无源奇偶时间($\mathcal{PT}$)光耦合器中,由于两个共振模式的合并而产生的EP指纹是光子衰减规律的质的变化,从阻尼拉比振荡到透明,因为EP通过增加损耗率而被跨越。然而,当被非经典光态探测时,量子干涉可以隐藏EP。结果表明,在偏振纠缠双光子态激发下,随着有效粒子统计从玻色子态到费米子态的变化,EP相变逐渐平滑直至消失。

英文摘要:

Exceptional points (EPs), i.e. branch point singularities of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, are ubiquitous in optics. So far, the signatures of EPs have been mostly studied assuming classical light. In the passive parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) optical coupler, a fingerprint of EPs resulting from the coalescence of two resonance modes is a qualitative change of the photon decay law, from damped Rabi-like oscillations to transparency, as the EP is crossed by increasing the loss rate. However, when probed by non-classical states of light, quantum interference can hide EPs. Here it is shown that, under excitation with polarization-entangled two-photon states, EP phase transition is smoothed until to disappear as the effective particle statistics is changed from bosonic to fermionic.

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