Nonclassical correlation properties of radiation fields

TL;DR

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for characterizing nonclassical space-time correlations in radiation fields, applicable to both static and dynamic sources, including phenomena like resonance fluorescence.

Contribution

It introduces a full characterization method for nonclassical correlations using normally and time-ordered correlation functions, encompassing source dynamics and initial states.

Findings

Correlation effects in resonance fluorescence of a two-level atom.

Framework applicable to multimode and dynamic radiation sources.

Describes nonclassical properties in space-time dependent correlations.

Abstract

A full characterization of nonclassical space-time dependent correlations of radiation is formulated in terms of normally and time-ordered field correlation functions. It describes not only the properties of initially prepared multimode radiation fields, but also the dynamics of radiation sources. Some of these correlation effects occur in the resonance fluorescence of a single two-level atom.