En Electrodynamique Quantique en Cavité (" Cavity QED "), l'interaction entre la transition atomique et le champ de la cavité est quantifiée par la fréquence de Rabi du vide. L'expression analogue " circuit QED " a été introduite pour certains circuits supraconducteurs contenant des Jonctions Josephson, parce qu'ils pouvaient se comporter comme des atomes artificiels couplés au mode bosonique du résonateur. Dans le régime où la fréquence de Rabi du vide est comparable à la fréquence de transition du système à deux niveaux, des transitions de phases quantiques superradiantes ont été prédites pour le fondamental du système, par exemple dans le cadre du modèle de Dicke. Des réalisations possibles du modèle de Dicke par des systèmes de circuit QED sont étudiées ici théoriquement dans les cas de couplage capacitif ou inductif. Prédictions et contraintes sont analysées pour l'obtention d'une transition de phase quantique, avec un vide deux fois dégénéré au-dessus d'un point critique quantique. La robustesse et la protection de la dégénérescence du vide dans le régime de couplage ultrafort sont étudiées, et conduisent à de possibles applications en Information Quantique avec des réseaux de plusieurs résonateurs. Finalement, un modèle de Dicke généralisé avec une phase doublement superradiante et un vide quatre fois dégénéré est proposé.

Ultracold neutral atoms confined in optical dipole traps have important applications in quantum computation and information processing, quantum simulators of interacting-many-body systems and atomic frequency metrology. While optical dipole traps are powerful tools for cold atom experiments, the energy level structures of the trapped atoms are shifted by the trapping field, and it is important to characterize these shifts in order to accurately manipulate and control the quantum state of the system. In order to measure the light shifts, we have designed a system that allows us to reliably trap individual 87Rb atoms. A non-destructive detection technique is employed so that the trapped atoms can be continuously observed for over 100 seconds. Single atom spectroscopy, trap frequency measurements, and temperature measurements are performed on single atoms in a single focus trap and small number of atoms in a 1D optical lattice in order to characterize the trapping environment, the perturbed energy level structures, and the probe-induced heating. In the second part of the thesis, we demonstrate deterministic delivery of an array of individual atoms to an optical cavity and selective addressability of individual atoms in a 1D optical conveyor, which serves as a potential candidate for scalable quantum information processing. The experiment is extended to a dual lattice system coupled to a single cavity with the capability of independent lattice control and addressability. The mutual interactions of atoms in different lattices mediated by a common cavity field are demonstrated. A semi-classical model in the many-atom regime based on the Jaynes-Cummings model is developed to describe the system that is in good qualitative agreement with the data. This work provides a foundation for developing multi-qubit quantum information experiments with a dual lattice cavity system.

We describe work on the construction of an effective field theory on a spherical light shell. The motivation arises from classical electromagnetism: If a collision produces charged particles with zero net charge emerging simultaneously from a point and instantaneously accelerating to the speed of light, then the electromagnetic fields due to these charges lie entirely on a spherical shell expanding at the speed of light. We show that this also applies to classical color radiation from high-energy collisions that produce colored particles. Specifically, the color fields produced in such a process are associated with a non-linear σ-model on the 2D light shell with specific symmetry-breaking terms. The quantum version of such a picture exhibits asymptotic freedom and should therefore be a useful starting point for a light-shell effective theory for QCD. We start in the simplified context of zero-flavor scalar quantum electrodynamics. Our effective theory has 3 major ingredients: breaking down the fields into soft and hard sectors with the large energy of the hard fields in the radial direction scaled out, a special gauge called light-shell gauge in which the picture simplifies, and a gauge-invariant source defined on a spherical light shell having infinitesimal radius. We match the fields between the effective theory and the full theory, meaning zero-flavor scalar QED. This allows us to compute the amplitude for the production of any number of scalars from the gauge-invariant source. We then find the tree-level amplitude for the emission of a photon using our effective theory and show that our result agrees with the full theory. To calculate loop effects in our effective theory, we need the photon propagator in light-shell gauge. We derive this propagator and use it to calculate the 1-loop correction to the amplitude for the production of a scalar and anti-scalar pair arising from virtual photon effects. This reduces to a pair of purely angular integrals in the effective theory and reproduces the familiar double logs of the full theory subject to an appropriate interpretation of an angular cutoff. / Physics

This thesis presents a theoretical study of the collective effects of a large number of photon emitters coupled to optical cavities. The ensemble effects are accounted for by considering both the light emitting and scattering by the photon emitters. It suggests that, to correctly estimate the emitters ensemble coupled cavity mode, it is necessary to consider the existence of the excited excitons ensemble and optical pumps. This thesis shows that optical pumps can excite more excitons and scattering channels as pumping power increases. The change in exciton population can lead to comprehensive spectral behaviors by changing the cavity spectral shapes, bandwidth and resonance positions, through the inhomogeneous broadening and frequencies repulsion effects of collective emissions. The existence of the exciton ensemble can also enhance optical coupling effects between target excitons and the cavity mode. The target exciton, which has a relatively large coupling strength and is close to the cavity peak, can affect the properties of the background dipoles and their coupling to the cavity. All these collective effects are sensitive to the number, the resonances distribution, and the optical properties of the background excitons in the frequency domain and the property of the target exciton, if any. This study provides a perspective on the control of the optical properties of cavities and individual excitons through collective excitation. / Thesis (Master, Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy) -- Queen's University, 2012-07-30 14:51:15.914

Thesis (M.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Physics, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. Xx-Xx).

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Dans cette thèse, nous étudions d’un point de vue théorique les propriétés physiques de nanostructures couplées à des cavités micro-ondes. L’électrodynamique quantique (QED) en cavité en présence d’une boîte quantique s’est révélée être une technique expérimentale puissante, permettant d'étudier cette dernière par des mesures photoniques en plus des mesures de transport électronique conventionnelles. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons d'utiliser le champ micro-ondes de la cavité afin d’extraire des informations supplémentaires sur les propriétés des conducteurs quantiques : le coefficient de transmission optique est directement lié à la susceptibilité électronique de ces conducteurs quantiques. Nous appliquons ce cadre général à différents systèmes mésoscopiques couplés à une cavité supraconductrice micro-ondes comme  une jonction tunnel, une boîte quantique couplée à des réservoirs, un fil topologique et un anneau supraconducteur. La QED en cavité peut être utilisée pour sonder, par l'intermédiaire de mesures photoniques, la dépendance en fréquence de l’admittance du puits quantique couplé à la cavité micro-ondes. En ce qui concerne le fil topologique, nous avons montré que la cavité permet de caractériser la transition de phase topologique, l'émergence de fermions de Majorana, ainsi que la parité de l'état fondamental. Pour l'anneau supraconducteur, nous étudions par l'intermédiaire de la réponse optique de la cavité l’effet Josephson et le passage à l'effet Josephson fractionnaire, qui est associé à l'apparition de fermions de Majorana dans le système. Le cadre théorique proposé dans cette permet de sonder de manière non-invasive un large éventail de nanostructures, des boîtes quantiques aux supraconducteurs topologiques. En outre, il donne de nouvelles informations sur les propriétés de ces conducteurs quantiques, informations non accessibles via des expériences de transport. / In this thesis, we study theoretically various physical properties of nanostructures that are coupledto microwave cavities. Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) with a quantum dot has been proven to be a powerful experimental technique that allows to study the latter by photonic measurements in addition to electronic transport measurements. In this thesis, we propose to use the cavity microwave field to extract additional information on the properties of quantum conductors: optical transmission coefficient gives direct access to electronic susceptibilities of these quantum conductors. We apply this general framework to different mesoscopic systems coupled to a superconducting microwave cavity, such as a tunnel junction, a quantum dot coupled to the leads, a topological wire and a superconducting ring. Cavity QED can be used to probe the finite frequency admittance of the quantum dot coupled to the microwave cavity via photonic measurements. Concerning the topological wire, we found that the cavity allows for determining the topological phase transition, the emergence of Majorana fermions, and also the parity of the ground state. For the superconducting ring, we propose to study the Josephson effect and the transition from the latter to the fractional Josephson effect, which is associated with the emergence of the Majorana fermions in the system, via the optical response of the cavity. The proposed framework allows to probe a broad range of nanostructures, including quantum dots and topological superconductors, in a non-invasive manner. Furthermore, it gives new information on the properties of these quantum conductors, which was not available in transport experiments.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第19702号 / 工博第4157号 / 新制||工||1641(附属図書館) / 32738 / 京都大学大学院工学研究科マイクロエンジニアリング専攻 / (主査)教授 立花 明知, 教授 木村 健二, 教授 伊藤 秋男 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

<p>Due to the rapid development of nanophotonics, microring resonators suspended on a membrane holds promises for a scalable optical circuit with strong light-atom interaction. In this dissertation, I introduce a efficiently-coupled microring circuits for on-chip cavity QED with cold atoms and report my experimental efforts to integrate the optical chip into a ultrahigh-vacuum chamber with a magneto-optical trap for Rb atoms. My attempts to load single atoms into optical tweezers are also discussed.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  Although the loading of atom into optical tweezers above the top surface of resonator remains a challenge in experiment, I propose an alternative of cavity cooling based on cavity QED to facilitate the loading of atom into a two-color evanescent field trap around the waveguide. Assuming that the strong interaction between atoms and resonator modes is realized, I theoretically investigate the synthesis via photoassociation and the direct optical detection of a single ground-state cold molecule, whose corresponding excited-state has multiple decay channels. Similarly to the Purcell effect, the decay in a specific decay channel could be enhanced based on cavity QED, and therefore the synthesis efficiency can approach unity when the interaction between the resonator modes and a single cold molecule becomes stronger. In addition, for a single cold molecule without closed optical transition, the electromagnetically induced transparency is possible to be observed on our nanophotonic platform in the case of strong resonator-molecule coupling.</p>

The Casimir force for charge-neutral, perfect conductors of non-planar geometric configurations have been investigated. The configurations were: (1) the plate-hemisphere, (2) the hemisphere-hemisphere and (3) the spherical shell. The resulting Casimir forces for these physical arrangements have been found to be attractive. The repulsive Casimir force found by Boyer for a spherical shell is a special case requiring stringent material property of the sphere, as well as the specific boundary conditions for the wave modes inside and outside of the sphere. The necessary criteria in detecting Boyer's repulsive Casimir force for a sphere are discussed at the end of this thesis. / Ph. D.