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arXiv:1507.05448

Sinusoidally Modulated Vacuum Rabi Oscillation of a Two-Level Atom in an Optomechanical Cavity

Zhenshan S. Yang, Chenglin Bai, Xiang‐Guo Meng, Minghong Wang

Published Jul 20, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study the coherent dynamics of an excited two-level atom in a vacuum optomechanical cavity and find that the original atom-cavity Rabi oscillation is sinusoidally modulated by the light-mechanics coupling as the Rabi splitting is on resonance with the mechanical mode. We develop an analytic model in a three-dimensional Hilbert subspace to explain this phenomenon and employ numerical simulations of the density-matrix master equation to confirm our analysis. We also show that the modulated Rabi oscillation survives in presence of dissipations and other non-ideal factors.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1507.05448

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