Asymmetric and Symmetric Study on Quantum Optics
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2023) | Viewed by 1974
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues，
We invite submissions to the Special Issue “Asymmetric and Symmetric Study on Quantum Optics”. Asymmetric and symmetric study in Hamiltonians, models, interactions, spectra, and dynamics are all of great importance in quantum optics and have found many unconventional Hermitian and non-Hermitian features. Hinging on the mathematical isomorphism between the Schrödinger equation and the Maxwell paraxial wave equation, the notion of parity-time symmetry in quantum mechanics has been extended to and is flourishing in quantum optics in view of the great convenience on experimental implementation. Asymmetric optical responses and consequent nonreciprocity in relation to the breaking of time-reversal symmetry have found applications for unidirectional propagation and reflectionlessness, nonreciprocal photon blockade and photon lasers, nontrivial topological photonics, and interesting characteristics of quantum entanglement and steering, etc. In addition, the possibility of asymmetric interaction, i.e, a propagation-direction-dependent (chiral) light-matter interaction, and its recent discovery have brought about the research field of chiral quantum optics.
Dr. Yan Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quantum optics
- non-Hermitian optics
- topological photonics
- interaction between light and matter
- parity-time symmetry (asymmetry)
- anti-parity-time symmetry
- nonreciprocity
- chiral interaction and transmission
- nonlinear optics
- quantum electrodynamics
