Title
Quantum-discord-triggered superradiance and subradiance in a system of two separated atoms
Abstract
We investigate collective radiant properties of two separated atoms in X-type quantum states. We show that quantum correlations measured by quantum discord (QD) can trigger and enhance superradiance and subradiance in the two-atom system even though in the absence of interatomic quantum entanglement. We also explore quantum statistical properties of photons in the superradiance and subradiance by addressing the second-order correlation function. In particular, when the initial state of the two separated atoms is the Werner state with nonzero QD, we find that radiation photons in the superradiant region exhibit the nonclassical sub-Poissonian statistics and the degree of the sub-Poissonian statistics increases with increasing of the QD amount, while radiation photons in the subradiant region have either the sub-Poissonian or super-Poissonian statistics depending on the amount of QD and the directional angle. In the subradiant regime, we predict the QD-triggered photon statistics transition from the super-Poissonian to sub-Poissonian statistics. These results shed a new light on applications of QD as a quantum resource.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11128-015-1026-9
Quantum Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Superradiance,Subradiance,Quantum discord,Quantum statistical properties
Photon,Quantum,Werner state,Quantum electrodynamics,Quantum entanglement,Quantum mechanics,Quantum state,Correlation function,Quantum discord,Physics,Superradiance
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
8
1570-0755
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
shiqing tang110.43
jibing yuan210.43
leman kuang330.96
Xin-Wen Wang494.34