Dynamics of photon transport through quantum impurities in dispersion-engineered one-dimensional systems

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Longo, Paolo ^a   Schmitteckert, Peter ^b   Busch, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Few photon quantum transport; Light matter interaction; Quantum interference; Single photon (transport); Two level systems

Indexed keywords

LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; SINGLE PHOTONS; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 72249088820     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/11/11/114009     Document Type: Article

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