{ "id": "1404.4513", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-04-17T13:01:08.000Z", "updated": "2014-09-30T13:06:35.000Z", "title": "Control of one-photon wavepacket interacting with two separated atoms in a one-dimensional waveguide: Influence of real and virtual photons", "authors": [ "S. Derouault", "M. A. Bouchene" ], "comment": "30 pages,3 figures", "journal": "Phys. Rev. A 90, 023828 (2014)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.90.023828", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We present a theoretical study of one photon wave-packet scattered by two atoms in one dimensional waveguide. We investigate the role of non rotating wave approximation terms to take into account correctly for the effects of the virtual photons that are exchanged between the atoms. These terms are shown to influence drastically the reflected and the transmitted fields, imposing strict constraints on their temporal envelopes.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-04-17T13:01:08.000Z", "abstract": "We present a theoretical study of one photon wave-packet scattered by two atoms in one dimensional waveguide, stressing on both the spectral and the temporal behavior. Rotating wave approximation is not done to take into account the effects of the virtual photons that are exchanged between the atoms. These photons are shown to influence drastically the spectrum of both the reflected and the transmitted fields. In the temporal domain, the envelopes of these fields are shown to obey strict constraints on their shape.", "comment": "46 pages,7 figures", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-09-30T13:06:35.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "42.50.Pq", "42.79.Gn", "42.82.Et" ], "keywords": [ "virtual photons", "one-photon wavepacket interacting", "one-dimensional waveguide", "separated atoms", "obey strict constraints" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Physical Review A", "year": 2014, "month": "Aug", "volume": 90, "number": 2, "pages": "023828" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 30, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014PhRvA..90b3828D" } } }