INTERACTION OF A 2-LEVEL ATOM WITH AN EVEN COHERENT-STATE

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GERRY, CC
HACH, EE
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[1] Department of Physics, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure
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10.1016/0375-9601(93)91081-F
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The interaction of a two-level atom with a quantized cavity field in an even coherent state, defined as an eigenstate of a2: a2\z> = z\z>, is investigated. We find that for an initial integer average photon number, at the time of the first revival, the field nearly returns to an even coherent state but with z replaced by ze(ipi). Just before the revival, the field is found to be in an odd field state. At half the revival time it is in a mixed state showing larger scale oscillations in the photon number distribution.
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