Probing the critical point of the Jaynes-Cummings second-order dissipative quantum phase transition
Th. K. Mavrogordatos
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, WC1E 6BT, London, UK
Abstract
We highlight the importance of quantum fluctuations in
organizing a dissipative quantum phase transition for the driven
Jaynes-Cummings
interaction with variable qubit-cavity detuning. The system response
presents a substantial difference from the predictions of the
semiclassical theory, the extent of which is revealed in the properties
of quantum bistability, and visualized with the help of
quasi-distribution functions for the cavity
field, subject to an appropriate scale parameter. States anticipated by
the neoclassical theory of radiation coexist in the quantum picture,
following the occurrence of spontaneous dressed-state polarization and
phase bistability at resonance.