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| author | Hatifi, Mohamed Stout, Brian |
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| contents | Photodetection converts optical quantum states into measurement events, but the usual electric-field response model becomes restrictive when the detector response is shaped by cavity, superconducting, or metamaterial engineering. We develop a generalized quantum photodetection framework in which electric and magnetic field amplitudes contribute coherently to the detection operator, and analyze it in a far-field two-source geometry, a two-mode single-photon setting, and a lossy resonant detector model. The far-field reference case exhibits complete detector-amplitude cancellation, absent in the electric-only Glauber response, while the single-photon model shows that the detector continuously rotates the effective measurement basis and controls the first-order visibility via an exact closed-form law. In the resonant realization, a monitored radiative output channel can be dark while the detector remains internally excited and absorptive, with unit absorption of the matched input mode at critical coupling. These results identify basis-selective readout and channel-selective absorption as experimentally relevant signatures of engineered electric-magnetic photodetection. |
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| spellingShingle | Basis- and Channel-Selective Quantum Photodetection Hatifi, Mohamed Stout, Brian Quantum Physics Photodetection converts optical quantum states into measurement events, but the usual electric-field response model becomes restrictive when the detector response is shaped by cavity, superconducting, or metamaterial engineering. We develop a generalized quantum photodetection framework in which electric and magnetic field amplitudes contribute coherently to the detection operator, and analyze it in a far-field two-source geometry, a two-mode single-photon setting, and a lossy resonant detector model. The far-field reference case exhibits complete detector-amplitude cancellation, absent in the electric-only Glauber response, while the single-photon model shows that the detector continuously rotates the effective measurement basis and controls the first-order visibility via an exact closed-form law. In the resonant realization, a monitored radiative output channel can be dark while the detector remains internally excited and absorptive, with unit absorption of the matched input mode at critical coupling. These results identify basis-selective readout and channel-selective absorption as experimentally relevant signatures of engineered electric-magnetic photodetection. |
| title | Basis- and Channel-Selective Quantum Photodetection |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16886 |