Echoes in the coherent-state Jaynes-Cummings model
JOSA B, Vol. 2, Issue 5, pp. 739-747 (1985)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.2.000739
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Abstract
The Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM) is used to give a detailed analysis of the long-time behavior of a two-level atom interacting with a (Glauber) coherent-state field. This work is based on the earlier work of J. H. Eberly and collaborators, who drew attention to the collapse and revival of the Rabi oscillations of the atomic inversion. We use the three components S1, S2, and S3 of the pseudospin vector S to analyze the dynamics of the atom within the rotating-wave approximation and exact resonance. We show that, at the times when the revivals peak, the variables σ = |S| and η = S3/σ become independent of (1) the transition dipole moment of the atom, (2) the intensity of the coherent-state field, and (3) the (common) frequency of the atom and the field. Thus these special values of a and η are a universal feature of the JCM that should be observed in experiments with any two-level atom in an arbitrarily intense (but resonant) coherent-state field. The derivation of the above results was facilitated by transforming into a rotating coordinate-frame in which S1 = 0 so that S2 and S3 are the only dynamical variables. The two-dimensional nature of S in this frame makes it easy to visualize the dynamical changes in the atom. The dynamics of the JCM is clarified by comparison with the closely related Buck-Sukumar model. The relationship of the phenomena discussed here to photon echoes and to quench echoes (in condensed media) is pointed out.
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P. K. Aravind and J. O. Hirschfelder†, "Echoes in the coherent-state Jaynes-Cummings model," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2, 739-747 (1985)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-2-5-739
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