Spontaneous Generation of Photons in Transmission of Quantum Fields in PT Symmetric Optical Systems

TL;DR

This paper presents a rigorous quantum description of PT symmetric optical systems, revealing significant spontaneous photon generation and nonclassical field behavior, with potential applications in plasmonic structures.

Contribution

It introduces a second quantization framework for PT symmetric systems and demonstrates spontaneous photon generation and HBT correlations, advancing understanding of nonclassical fields.

Findings

Significant spontaneous photon generation in PT symmetric systems

Emergence of HBT correlations in spontaneous emission

Spontaneous generation influences nonclassical field properties

Abstract

We develop a rigorous mathematically consistent description of PT symmetric optical systems by using second quantization. We demonstrate the possibility of significant spontaneous generation of photons in PT symmetric systems. Further we show the emergence of Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) correlations in spontaneous generation. We show that the spontaneous generation determines decisively the nonclassical nature of fields in PT symmetric systems. Our work can be applied to other systems like plasmonic structure where losses are compensated by gain mechanisms.