Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Echave-Sustaeta, Jaime, García-Vidal, Francisco J., Huidobro, P. A.
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05043
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866914788418781184
author Echave-Sustaeta, Jaime
García-Vidal, Francisco J.
Huidobro, P. A.
author_facet Echave-Sustaeta, Jaime
García-Vidal, Francisco J.
Huidobro, P. A.
contents Time-varying media offer a platform to realize novel and exotic wave effects, including photonic time crystals characterized by momentum band gaps with exponential wave amplification. Here we focus on the quantum electrodynamical properties of time-varying media, in particular vacuum amplification and squeezing. For that purpose, we present a theory of photon pair generation in photonic time crystals that unveils the link between the classical and quantum electrodynamical properties of these systems, that is, a direct relation between reflectivity and pair generation through the squeezing parameter. By working within an Hermitian framework, we are able to characterize quantum pair generation processes in photonic time crystals, showing how momentum bandgaps result in a non-resonant exponential enhancement of dynamical Casimir processes.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2405_05043
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Photon Squeezing in Photonic Time Crystals
Echave-Sustaeta, Jaime
García-Vidal, Francisco J.
Huidobro, P. A.
Optics
Quantum Physics
Time-varying media offer a platform to realize novel and exotic wave effects, including photonic time crystals characterized by momentum band gaps with exponential wave amplification. Here we focus on the quantum electrodynamical properties of time-varying media, in particular vacuum amplification and squeezing. For that purpose, we present a theory of photon pair generation in photonic time crystals that unveils the link between the classical and quantum electrodynamical properties of these systems, that is, a direct relation between reflectivity and pair generation through the squeezing parameter. By working within an Hermitian framework, we are able to characterize quantum pair generation processes in photonic time crystals, showing how momentum bandgaps result in a non-resonant exponential enhancement of dynamical Casimir processes.
title Photon Squeezing in Photonic Time Crystals
topic Optics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05043