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Resonance fluorescence of polar quantum systems in a bichromatic field

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We study spectral properties of fluorescent radiation from a two-level quantum system with broken inversion spatial symmetry, which can be implemented as a model of a one-electron two-level atom whose electric dipole moment operator has permanent unequal diagonal matrix elements. We consider the case of the excitation of this system by a bichromatic laser field consisting of a high-frequency resonance component with the frequency coinciding with the atomic transition frequency and a low-frequency component whose frequency coincides with the Rabi frequency of the high-frequency component. We show that by changing the intensity of the low-frequency component, we can efficiently control spectral properties of the fluorescent radiation of the system in the high-frequency range. We discuss possible methods for the experimental detection and practical use of the effects under study.

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The authors express their gratitude to the referees who drew their attention to the interesting and very important results obtained in the process of theoretical and experimental studies of the quantum optical properties of plasmonic quantum nanosystems.

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, 2023, Vol. 217, pp. 480–498 https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf10500.

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Bogoliubov, Jr., N.N., Soldatov, A.V. Resonance fluorescence of polar quantum systems in a bichromatic field. Theor Math Phys 217, 1827–1841 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577923120036

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