Quantum scattering theory of a single-photon Fock state in three-dimensional spaces

Opt Lett. 2016 Sep 15;41(18):4166-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.41.004166.

Abstract

A quantum scattering theory is developed for Fock states scattered by two-level systems in three-dimensional free space. It is built upon the one-dimensional scattering theory developed in waveguide quantum electrodynamics. The theory fully quantizes the incident light as Fock states and uses a non-perturbative method to calculate the scattering matrix.