Dressed bound states and non-Markovian dynamics with a whispering-gallery-mode microcavity coupled to a two-level atom and a semi-infinite photonic waveguide

Abstract

We investigate the dressed bound states (DBS) in an open cavity with a whispering-gallery-mode microring coupled to a two-level atom and a waveguide with a mirror at the right end. We demonstrate that the non-Hermiticity of an open cavity facilitates the formation of the DBS, which consists of the vacancy-like DBS and Friedrich-Wintgen DBS. By deriving analytical conditions for these DBS, we show that when a two-level atom couples to the standing-wave mode that corresponds to a node of the photonic wave function the vacancy-like DBS occur, which are characterized by null spectral density at cavity resonance. Conversely, Friedrich-Wintgen DBS can be realized by continuously adjusting system parameters and indicated by the disappearance of the Rabi peak in the emission spectrum, which is a distinctive feature in the strong-coupling regime. Moreover, we extend our analysis to the non-Markovian regime and find that our results are consistent with those obtained under the Markovian approximation in the wideband limit. In the non-Markovian regime, we analyze DBS for both zero and non-zero accumulated phase factors. For zero accumulated phase factors, the non-Markovian regime exhibits higher peak values and longer relaxation times for vacancy-like DBS compared to the Markovian regime, where the Friedrich-Wintgen DBS are absent in the non-Markovian case. Finally, we establish the correspondence between the energy spectrum and bound state conditions for non-zero accumulated phase factors and analyze the influence of various parameters on non-Markovian bound states. Our work exhibits bound state manipulations through non-Markovian open quantum system, which holds great potential for building high-performance quantum devices for applications such as sensing, photon storage, and nonclassical light generation.