Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2006-01-05
Physical Review A 74, 033823 (2006)
Physics
Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.74.033823
We study the back-action of a single photon detector on the electromagnetic field upon a photodetection by considering a microscopic model in which the detector is constituted of a sensor and an amplification mechanism. Using the quantum trajectories approach we determine the Quantum Jump Superoperator (QJS) that describes the action of the detector on the field state immediately after the photocount. The resulting QJS consists of two parts: the bright counts term, representing the real photoabsorptions, and the dark counts term, representing the amplification of intrinsic excitations inside the detector. First we compare our results for the counting rates to experimental data, showing a good agreement. Then we point out that by modifying the field frequency one can engineer the form of QJS, obtaining the QJS's proposed previously in an ad hoc manner.
Dodonov A. V.
Dodonov Victor V.
Mizrahi Salomon S.
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