Dissipation in a fundamental model of quantum optical resonance
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 33 (4) , 2444-2448
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.33.2444
Abstract
The fully quantum-electrodynamical model of a two-level atom interacting with a single-cavity mode predicts an atomic evolution whose form is dictated by the discrete nature of the field energy and its statistical distribution. We demonstrate that the revivals of atomic excitation which are the signature of the quantum nature of the evolution are strongly affected by field dissipation even when the damping hardly affects the underlying Rabi oscillations.Keywords
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