Photon scattering from a system of multilevel quantum emitters. I. Formalism

TY - JOUR

T1 - Photon scattering from a system of multilevel quantum emitters. I. Formalism

AU - Das, Sumanta Kumar

AU - Elfving, Vincent Emanuel

AU - Reiter, Florentin

AU - Sørensen, Anders Søndberg

PY - 2018/4/17

Y1 - 2018/4/17

N2 - We introduce a formalism to solve the problem of photon scattering from a system of multilevel quantum emitters. Our approach provides a direct solution of the scattering dynamics. As such the formalism gives the scattered fields' amplitudes in the limit of a weak incident intensity. Our formalism is equipped to treat both multiemitter and multilevel emitter systems, and is applicable to a plethora of photon-scattering problems, including conditional state preparation by photodetection. In this paper, we develop the general formalism for an arbitrary geometry. In the following paper (part II) S. Das et al. [Phys. Rev. A 97, 043838 (2018)10.1103/PhysRevA.97.043838], we reduce the general photon-scattering formalism to a form that is applicable to one-dimensional waveguides and show its applicability by considering explicit examples with various emitter configurations.

AB - We introduce a formalism to solve the problem of photon scattering from a system of multilevel quantum emitters. Our approach provides a direct solution of the scattering dynamics. As such the formalism gives the scattered fields' amplitudes in the limit of a weak incident intensity. Our formalism is equipped to treat both multiemitter and multilevel emitter systems, and is applicable to a plethora of photon-scattering problems, including conditional state preparation by photodetection. In this paper, we develop the general formalism for an arbitrary geometry. In the following paper (part II) S. Das et al. [Phys. Rev. A 97, 043838 (2018)10.1103/PhysRevA.97.043838], we reduce the general photon-scattering formalism to a form that is applicable to one-dimensional waveguides and show its applicability by considering explicit examples with various emitter configurations.

U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.043837

DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.043837

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2469-9926

VL - 97

JO - Physical Review A

JF - Physical Review A

M1 - 043837

ER -