Qubit-nonlinear-oscillator systems: from the moderate-coupling limit to the ultrastrong-coupling regime

TL;DR

This paper introduces an algebraic modeling approach for a qubit coupled to a nonlinear oscillator, analyzing moderate to ultrastrong coupling regimes and exploring effects on ground state properties.

Contribution

It presents a unified algebraic framework using f-deformed oscillators to model nonlinearities in qubit-oscillator systems across different coupling regimes.

Findings

Analytic diagonalization in moderate coupling regime.

Numerical analysis of nonlinear effects on ground state squeezing.

Impact of nonlinearities on phase space properties.

Abstract

This work aims to provide an alternative approach to modeling a two-state system (qubit) coupled to a nonlinear oscillator. Within a single algebraic scheme based upon the f-deformed oscillator description, hard and soft nonlinearities are proposed to be simulated by making use of fitting algebraic models extracted from the trigonometric and modified P\"oschl-Teller potentials, respectively. In the regime where the strength of the coupling is considered to be moderate, this approach allows for an analytic, albeit approximate, diagonalization process of the proposed Hamiltonian through using the Van Vleck perturbation theory and embracing the two types of nonlinear features. In the ultrastrong-coupling regime, the effect of such nonlinearities upon the squeezing and phase space properties of the ground state of the composite system is also explored by numerical means.