Probing the Critical Point of the Jaynes–Cummings Second-Order Dissipative Quantum Phase Transition


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Abstract

We highlight the importance of quantum fluctuations in organizing a dissipative quantum phase transition for the driven Jaynes–Cummings interaction with variable qubit-cavity detuning. The system response presents a substantial difference from the predictions of the semiclassical theory, the extent of which is revealed in the properties of quantum bistability, and visualized with the help of quasi-distribution functions for the cavity field, subject to an appropriate scale parameter. States anticipated by the neoclassical theory of radiation coexist in the quantum picture, following the occurrence of spontaneous dressed-state polarization and phase bistability at resonance.

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Th. K. Mavrogordatos

Department of Physics and Astronomy

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Email: t.mavrogordatos@ucl.ac.uk
United Kingdom, London, WC1E 6BT

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