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Main Authors: Xie, Hong, He, Le-Wei, Lin, Xiu-Min
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10664
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author Xie, Hong
He, Le-Wei
Lin, Xiu-Min
author_facet Xie, Hong
He, Le-Wei
Lin, Xiu-Min
contents The method of adiabatic elimination has been widely adopted in quantum optics in the past several decades. In the study of cavity-based light-matter interactions, the bad-cavity limit is often encountered, where the damping rate of the cavity is much larger than the interaction strength. The fast-damped cavity will quickly relax to a quasi-stationary state, and one can eliminate the cavity from the equation of motion by setting its time derivative to zero. Elimination of the cavity in the bad-cavity limit can reduce the dimensionality of the equations of motion of the system. However, we find that the adiabatic elimination procedure performed in the quantum Langevin equation leads to an incorrect commutation relation, which was rarely discussed in the former studies, as far as we know. Here, we show the incorrect commutation relation arises from the fact that the high frequency of the vacuum noise should be cut off to perform adiabatic elimination, but the noise with high frequency cutoff is still treated as white noise with infinite bandwidth and delta commutation relation. We also study the correlation function and show that the high frequency part of noise contributes very little when averaged over the bath. Therefore, the adiabatic elimination method can reduce the complexity of the calculations while maintaining physical reliability.
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spellingShingle Commutation Relations in Adiabatic Elimination
Xie, Hong
He, Le-Wei
Lin, Xiu-Min
Quantum Physics
The method of adiabatic elimination has been widely adopted in quantum optics in the past several decades. In the study of cavity-based light-matter interactions, the bad-cavity limit is often encountered, where the damping rate of the cavity is much larger than the interaction strength. The fast-damped cavity will quickly relax to a quasi-stationary state, and one can eliminate the cavity from the equation of motion by setting its time derivative to zero. Elimination of the cavity in the bad-cavity limit can reduce the dimensionality of the equations of motion of the system. However, we find that the adiabatic elimination procedure performed in the quantum Langevin equation leads to an incorrect commutation relation, which was rarely discussed in the former studies, as far as we know. Here, we show the incorrect commutation relation arises from the fact that the high frequency of the vacuum noise should be cut off to perform adiabatic elimination, but the noise with high frequency cutoff is still treated as white noise with infinite bandwidth and delta commutation relation. We also study the correlation function and show that the high frequency part of noise contributes very little when averaged over the bath. Therefore, the adiabatic elimination method can reduce the complexity of the calculations while maintaining physical reliability.
title Commutation Relations in Adiabatic Elimination
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10664