Abstract
We investigate gain in microwave photonic cavities coupled to voltage-biased double quantum dot systems with an arbitrary strong dot-lead coupling and with a Holstein-like light-matter interaction, by adapting the diagrammatic Keldysh nonequilibrium Green's function approach. We compute out-of-equilibrium properties of the cavity : its transmission, phase response, mean photon number, power spectrum, and spectral function. We show that by the careful engineering of these hybrid light-matter systems, one can achieve a significant amplification of the optical signal with the voltage-biased electronic system serving as a gain medium. We also study the steady state current across the device, identifying elastic and inelastic tunnelling processes which involve the cavity mode. Our results show how recent advances in quantum electronics can be exploited to build hybrid light-matter systems that behave as single-atom amplifiers and photon source devices. The diagrammatic Keldysh approach is primarily discussed for a cavity-coupled double quantum dot architecture, but it is generalizable to other hybrid light-matter systems.
Highlights
Recent years have seen a significant progress in probing and controlling hybrid lightmatter systems at the interface of quantum optics and condensed matter physics [1,2,3,4]
III we study the optical properties of the cavity, namely, the mean photon number, power spectrum and the spectral function, transmission coefficient, and phase response
By using the Keldysh diagrammatic non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) approach we had investigated the photonic and the electronic properties of a non-equilibrium double quantum dot setup coupled to a microwave resonator
Summary
Recent years have seen a significant progress in probing and controlling hybrid lightmatter systems at the interface of quantum optics and condensed matter physics [1,2,3,4]. Using such approaches one potentially misses important features in the optical and electronic signals, the result of finite bias voltage and strong dot-lead couplings Approximate methods such as the Markovian-secular quantum master equation or mean field calculations are often uncontrolled and non-transparent. It is of a great importance to introduce a systematic approach that allows for an arbitrary dotlead coupling, (especially since experiments allow tunability from weak to strong dot-lead coupling), handles finite source-drain bias voltage, and treats light-matter coupling in a systematic (even if perturbative) manner. Our model includes two electronic levels corresponding to two quantum dots (DQD), each coupled to a primary microwave photon mode (cavity photons).
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