Two-photon spectra of quantum emitters. A. González-Tudela, F. P. Laussy, C. Tejedor, M. J Hartmann and E. del Valle in New J. Phys. 15:033036 (2013). 
This paper introduces for the first time—and computes explicitly for various cases—the two-photon correlation spectrum (or "two-photon spectrum" as per the nomenclature of the paper), that is, the 2D landscape of photon correlations when retaining their frequency degree of freedom. This was made possible thanks to our earlier theory of frequency-resolved multiphoton correlations.[1]
We made a "video abstract" to explain the main idea (also available on the editor's website):
This is, for instance, the 2PS (two-photon spectrum) for the Mollow triplet:
We understood the triplet of red antidiagonal lines right away (they are leapfrog processes) but it would take another decade for us to figure out the blue circles![2]
The two-photon spectrum has been measured experimentally for the first time by Peiris et al.,[3] which is the most interesting case, and shortly after that by Silva et al.[4] but for something with much less quantum structure.
Such 2D structures remain ignored by the bulk of quantum opticians, who, to date, fail to understand that to look at two-photon observables, one must look at two-photon spectra. In this way, people remained oblivious to the strongly-correlated emission away from the spectral peaks that, if you Purcell-enhance it, gives rise to a new regime of quantum emission.[5]
References
- ↑ Theory of Frequency-Filtered and Time-Resolved $N$-Photon Correlations. E. del Valle, A. González-Tudela, F. P. Laussy, C. Tejedor and M. J. Hartmann in Phys. Rev. Lett. 109:183601 (2012).
- ↑ Two photons everywhere. E. Zubizarreta Casalengua, F. P. Laussy and E. del Valle in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 382:20230315 (2024).
- ↑ Two-color photon correlations of the light scattered by a quantum dot. M. Peiris, B. Petrak, K. Konthasinghe, Y. Yu, Z. C. Niu and A. Muller in Phys. Rev. B 91:195125 (2015).
- ↑ The colored Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect. B. Silva, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Ballarini, A. González-Tudela, M. de Giorgi, G. Gigli, K. West, L. Pfeiffer, E. del Valle, D. Sanvitto and F. P. Laussy in Sci. Rep. 6:37980 (2016).
- ↑ Emitters of $N$-photon bundles. C. Sánchez Muñoz, E. del Valle, A. González Tudela, K. Müller, S. Lichtmannecker, M. Kaniber, C. Tejedor, J.J. Finley and F.P. Laussy in Nature Photon. 8:550 (2014).