NONCLASSICAL FIELD-DYNAMICS IN PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES - ATOMIC-BEAM RESONANT INTERACTION WITH A SPATIALLY PERIODIC FIELD MODE

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SHERMAN, B
KURIZKI, G
KADYSHEVITCH, A
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[1] Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1927
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We consider the quantum electrodynamics of an atom uniformly moving through a single spatially periodic field mode. The shape and periodicity of the field modulation can be designed by an appropriate choice of a defect in a periodic structure that possesses a forbidden spectral band (a "photonic band gap"). The design of the periodic modulation can improve our control over the evolution and properties (e.g., photon statistics) of nonclassical "Schrodinger-cat" states of the field, generated by resonant interaction with the atom.
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