Perturbative and iterative methods for photon transport in one-dimensional waveguides

The problems of photon transport in one-dimensional waveguides have recently attracted great attentions. We consider the case of single photons scattering off a Λ-type three-level quantum emitter, and discuss the perturbative treatments of the scattering processes in terms of Born approximation for the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism. We show that the iterative Born series of the scattering amplitudes converge to the exact results obtained by other approaches. The generalization of our work provides a foundational basis for efficient computational schemes for photon scattering problems in one-dimensional waveguides.