Macroscopic quantum electrodynamics approach to nonlinear optics and application to polaritonic quantum-vacuum detection

Application of Quantum Inequalities to Quantum Optics

We establish a connection between quantum inequalities, known from quantum field theory on curved spacetimes, and the degree of squeezing in quantum-optical experiments. We prove an inequality which binds the reduction of the electric-field fluctuations to their duration. The bigger the level of fluctuation-suppression the shorter its duration. As an example of an application of this inequality...

Quantum terahertz electrodynamics and macroscopic quantum tunneling in layered superconductors.

We derive a quantum field theory of Josephson plasma waves (JPWs) in layered superconductors, which describes two types of interacting JPW bosonic quanta (one heavy and one lighter). We propose a mechanism of enhancement of macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions. Because of the long-range interaction between junctions in layered superconductors, the calcu...

Nonperturbative approach to circuit quantum electrodynamics.

We outline a rigorous method which can be used to solve the many-body Schrödinger equation for a Coulomb interacting electronic system in an external classical magnetic field as well as a quantized electromagnetic field. Effects of the geometry of the electronic system as well as the polarization of the quantized electromagnetic field are explicitly taken into account. We accomplish this by per...

Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics

3. Elementary processes in QED Scattering amplitudes and the differential cross-section Kinematics of binary processes, decay rate of an unstable particle The scattering e− e → μ− μ, the square of the scattering amplitude Unpolarized scattering and its differential cross-section The scattering e− μ− → e− μ−, the square of the scattering amplitude Crossing symmetry, Mandelstam variables, crossed...

Quantum Electrodynamics of Casimir Momentum: Momentum of the Quantum Vacuum?