Predictive Semiclassical Model for Coherent and Incoherent Emission in the Strong Field Regime: The Mollow Triplet Revisited

Hsing Ta Chen*, Tao E. Li, Abraham Nitzan, Joseph E. Subotnik

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Abstract

We reinvestigate the famous Mollow triplet and show that most of the well-known quantum characteristics of the Mollow triplet - including incoherent emission and a nonstandard dependence of the sidebands on detuning - can be recovered quantitatively using semiclassical dynamics with a classical light field. In fact, by not relying on the rotating wave approximation, a semiclassical model predicts some quantum effects beyond the quantum optical Bloch equation, including higher-order scattering and asymmetric sideband features. This Letter highlights the fact that, with strong intensities, many putatively quantum features of light-matter interactions arise from a simple balance of mean-field electrodynamics and elementary spontaneous emission, which requires minimal computational cost. Our results suggest that the application of semiclassical electrodynamics to problems with strong light-matter coupling in the fields of nanophotonics and superradiance are likely to yield a plethora of new information.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1331-1336
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Physical Chemistry Letters
Volume10
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Mar 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
Office of Basic Energy SciencesDE-SC0019397
U.S. Binational Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science

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