Enhancing acceleration radiation from ground-state atoms via cavity quantum electrodynamics. uri icon

abstract

  • When ground-state atoms are accelerated through a high Q microwave cavity, radiation is produced with an intensity which can exceed the intensity of Unruh acceleration radiation in free space by many orders of magnitude. The reason is a strong nonadiabatic effect at cavity boundaries and its interplay with the standard Unruh effect. The cavity field at steady state is still described by a thermal density matrix under most conditions. However, under some conditions gain is possible, and when the atoms are injected in a regular fashion, squeezed radiation can be produced.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Scully, M. O., Kocharovsky, V. V., Belyanin, A., Fry, E., & Capasso, F.

citation count

  • 95

complete list of authors

  • Scully, Marlan O||Kocharovsky, Vitaly V||Belyanin, Alexey||Fry, Edward||Capasso, Federico

publication date

  • December 2003