Entanglement resonance in the asymmetric quantum Rabi model

TL;DR

This paper explores how entanglement in the asymmetric quantum Rabi model varies with system parameters, revealing resonance phenomena linked to eigenenergy crossings and the role of hidden symmetries in entanglement behavior.

Contribution

It uncovers the entanglement resonance valleys and peaks caused by avoided level crossings and identifies conditions for entanglement reappearance due to hidden symmetry.

Findings

Entanglement resonance valleys increase with photon-atom coupling.

Entanglement peaks occur with increasing driving amplitude.

Entanglement collapses in strong coupling except at specific driving amplitudes.

Abstract

We investigate the entanglement features in the interacting system of a quantized optical field and a two-level system which is statically driven, known as the asymmetric quantum Rabi model (AsymQRM). Intriguing entanglement resonance valleys with the increase of the photon-atom coupling strength and peaks with the increase of the driving amplitude are found. It is revealed that both of these two kinds of entanglement resonance are caused by the avoided level crossing of the associated eigenenergies. In sharp contrast to the quantum Rabi model, the entanglement of the AsymQRM collapses to zero in the strong coupling regime except when the driving amplitude equals to $m\omega/2$, with $m$ being an integer and $\omega$ being the photon frequency. Our analysis demonstrates that such entanglement reappearance is induced by the hidden symmetry of the AsymQRM. Supplying an insightful understanding on the AsymQRM, our results will be helpful in exploring the hidden symmetry and in preparing photon-atom entanglement in light-matter coupled systems.