title: Antibunching of thermal radiation by a room-temperature phonon bath: a numerically solvable model for a strongly interacting light-matter-reservoir system.
abstract: Progress in semiconductor technology introduces a new platform for quantum optics studies in solid state: a quantum dot strongly coupled to a cavity mode. We present a numerically solvable model for the combined electron, photon, and phonon dynamics. For a cavity mode prepared in a Fock state, the model reproduces the Jaynes-Cumming solution and interaction with a phonon bath leads to a higher value for the intensity-intensity correlation function: g;(2)(0). In contrast, for an initial thermal photon distribution, the phonon-bath interaction gives a counterintuitive reduction in g;(2)(0), resulting in the classical photon distribution evolving into a nonclassical one.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany. alex@itp.physik.tu-berlin.de
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carmele
authors.forename: Marten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.forename: Weng W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Knorr