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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 101, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.101.043847
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- European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) [ERC Grant] [335266]
- European Unions H2020 research and innovation programme [800942]
- EPSRC [EP/M014266/1, EP/P026133/1]
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- Henslow Research Fellowship
- EPSRC [EP/M014266/1, EP/P026133/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We study the preparation of coherent quantum states in a two-photon micromaser for applications in quantum metrology. While this setting can be in principle realized in a host of physical systems, we consider atoms interacting with the field of a cavity. We focus on the case of the interaction described by the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian, which cannot be achieved by the conventional approach with three-level atoms coupled to the cavity field at two-photon resonance. We find that additional levels are required in order to cancel Stark shifts emerging in the leading order. Once this is accomplished, the dynamics of the cavity features a degenerate stationary state manifold of pure states. We derive the analytic form of these states and show that they include Schrodinger cat states with a tunable mean photon number. We also confirm these states can be useful in phase estimation protocols with their quantum Fisher information exceeding the standard limit. To account for realistic imperfections, we consider single-photon losses from the cavity, finite lifetime of atom levels, and higher order corrections in the far-detuned limit, which result in metastability of formerly stationary cavity states and longtime dynamics with a unique mixed stationary state. Despite being mixed, this stationary state can still feature quantum Fisher information above the standard limit. Our work delivers a comprehensive overview of the two-photon micromaser dynamics with particular focus on application in phase estimation and, while we consider the setup with atoms coupled to a cavity, the results can be directly translated to optomechanical systems.
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