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Position-resolved resonance quantization for lossy cavities
Phys. Rev. Research 8, 033108 – Published 27 July, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/zx17-zz1m
Abstract
Modern experiments in resonators are moving to ever more extreme quantum regimes, posing major challenges to established theoretical approaches, such as so-called few-mode models. While these models have driven major insights for traditional regimes, they are now hitting their limitations for highly open cavities and extended systems, as encountered in cavity experiments with molecules and solid-state systems. Here, we present a method that significantly extends the conceptual underpinning of these discrete-mode models, promoting them to a systematic treatment. We develop an ansatz which allows to quantize the resonator's resonances with position-resolved discrete modes, thus naturally incorporating losses in the formalism. Such a construction effectively unifies key ideas from pseudomodes and quantized quasinormal modes theory. We further present a criterion for construction of the ansatz parameters at every point in space and semianalytically benchmark the resulting solution for a paradigmatic one-dimensional example resonator.
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