Evolution of wave functions in the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model: The generation of superpositions of coherent states

Autor: Tahira Nasreen, K. Zaheer
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics. 49(1)
ISSN: 1050-2947
Popis: The pure-state evolution of the atomic as well as the field states in the resonant two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model with the field initially in the coherent state is studied. Analytic expressions for various quantities involved are obtained under the large-n\ifmmode\bar\else\textasciimacron\fi{} approximation. It is shown that the atom as well as the field are approximately in the pure state for gt=k\ensuremath{\pi}/4, where k is an integer and in a completely pure state for gt=k\ensuremath{\pi}. The field states generated at the times gt=k\ensuremath{\pi}/4 are shown to be a quantum superposition of the coherent states for a particular choice of the relative phase. The interference between these states leads to a spiked photon-number distribution but the field is still Poissonian.
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