J.R. Johansson and P.D. Nation
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%matplotlib inline
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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import numpy as np
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from qutip import *
Here we aim to reproduce the experimental results from:
Gleyzes et al., "Quantum jumps of light recording the birth and death of a photon in a cavity", [Nature **446**, 297 (2007)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05589).
In particular, we will simulate the creation and annihilation of photons inside the optical cavity due to the thermal environment when the initial cavity is a single-photon Fock state $ |1\rangle$, as presented in Fig. 3 from the article.
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N=5
a=destroy(N)
H=a.dag()*a # Simple oscillator Hamiltonian
psi0=basis(N,1) # Initial Fock state with one photon
kappa=1.0/0.129 # Coupling rate to heat bath
nth= 0.063 # Temperature with <n>=0.063
# Build collapse operators for the thermal bath
c_ops = []
c_ops.append(np.sqrt(kappa * (1 + nth)) * a)
c_ops.append(np.sqrt(kappa * nth) * a.dag())
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ntraj = [1,5,15,904] # number of MC trajectories
tlist = np.linspace(0,0.8,100)
mc = mcsolve(H,psi0,tlist,c_ops,[a.dag()*a],ntraj)
me = mesolve(H,psi0,tlist,c_ops, [a.dag()*a])
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fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8), frameon=False)
plt.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.0)
# Results for a single trajectory
ax1 = plt.subplot(4,1,1)
ax1.xaxis.tick_top()
ax1.plot(tlist,mc.expect[0][0],'b',lw=2)
ax1.set_xticks([0,0.2,0.4,0.6])
ax1.set_yticks([0,0.5,1])
ax1.set_ylim([-0.1,1.1])
ax1.set_ylabel(r'$\langle P_{1}(t)\rangle$')
# Results for five trajectories
ax2 = plt.subplot(4,1,2)
ax2.plot(tlist,mc.expect[1][0],'b',lw=2)
ax2.set_yticks([0,0.5,1])
ax2.set_ylim([-0.1,1.1])
ax2.set_ylabel(r'$\langle P_{1}(t)\rangle$')
# Results for fifteen trajectories
ax3 = plt.subplot(4,1,3)
ax3.plot(tlist,mc.expect[2][0],'b',lw=2)
ax3.plot(tlist,me.expect[0],'r--',lw=2)
ax3.set_yticks([0,0.5,1])
ax3.set_ylim([-0.1,1.1])
ax3.set_ylabel(r'$\langle P_{1}(t)\rangle$')
# Results for 904 trajectories
ax4 = plt.subplot(4,1,4)
ax4.plot(tlist,mc.expect[3][0],'b',lw=2)
ax4.plot(tlist,me.expect[0],'r--',lw=2)
plt.xticks([0,0.2,0.4,0.6])
plt.yticks([0,0.5,1])
ax4.set_xlim([0,0.8])
ax4.set_ylim([-0.1,1.1])
ax4.set_xlabel(r'Time (s)')
ax4.set_ylabel(r'$\langle P_{1}(t)\rangle$')
xticklabels = ax2.get_xticklabels()+ax3.get_xticklabels()
plt.setp(xticklabels, visible=False);
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from qutip.ipynbtools import version_table
version_table()
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