Environment-Assisted Speed-up of the Field Evolution in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
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2015-06-11
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A. D. Cimmarusti et al, Environment-Assisted Speed-up of the Field Evolution in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114(23) (2015), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.233602
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We measure the quantum speed of the state evolution of the field in a weakly driven optical cavity QED system. To this end, the mode of the electromagnetic field is considered as a quantum system of interest with a preferential coupling to a tunable environment: the atoms. By controlling the environment, i.e., changing the number of atoms coupled to the optical cavity mode, an environment-assisted speed-up is realized: the quantum speed of the state repopulation in the optical cavity increases with the coupling strength between the optical cavity mode and this non-Markovian environment (the number of atoms).