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| author | Najafabadi, Mojdeh S. Corney, Joel F. Soto, Luis Sanchez Leuchs, Gerd |
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| contents | We study the dynamics of light interacting with a near-resonant atomic medium using the truncated Wigner and positive P phase-space representations. The atomic degrees of freedom are described using the Jordan-Schwinger mapping. The dynamics is first analyzed under unitary evolution and subsequently in the presence of an optical reservoir. While both approaches capture the main features of the light-matter dynamics, we find that the truncated Wigner approximation exhibits noticeable deviations for stronger interaction strengths and when reservoir-induced noise becomes significant. |
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| spellingShingle | Benchmarking quantum phase-space methods for near-resonant light propagation Najafabadi, Mojdeh S. Corney, Joel F. Soto, Luis Sanchez Leuchs, Gerd Quantum Physics Mathematical Physics We study the dynamics of light interacting with a near-resonant atomic medium using the truncated Wigner and positive P phase-space representations. The atomic degrees of freedom are described using the Jordan-Schwinger mapping. The dynamics is first analyzed under unitary evolution and subsequently in the presence of an optical reservoir. While both approaches capture the main features of the light-matter dynamics, we find that the truncated Wigner approximation exhibits noticeable deviations for stronger interaction strengths and when reservoir-induced noise becomes significant. |
| title | Benchmarking quantum phase-space methods for near-resonant light propagation |
| topic | Quantum Physics Mathematical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17660 |