The dynamics of two atoms coupled to the vacuum radiation field is investigated within the framework of the resonance dipole approximation. The exact solution of the resonance energy transfer problem is obtained.
The transferred energy between two (three) radiators localized in two (three) cavities in interaction through an evanescent field is investigated. In the good-cavity limit the exact solution of the Schrödinger equation for this system is obtained. An interesting problem appears when the located excitation in one atom from one distinguished cavity is transferred to a second atom from another cavity. We analyze analytically and numerically the dynamics of the transferred energy as a function of the coupling constant between the cavities. Another interesting problem is the trapping condition for two atoms flying through different coupled cavities. For subsystems consisting of two atomic levels, we know that, only a dynamic trapping condition can be found. In this paper, we show that due to the coupling of the cavities, the trapping condition for two atoms flying through different cavities becomes possible. This effect depends on the coupling constants between the cavities and the dipole interaction between the radiators and cavity modes. A similar problem is studied in the bad-cavity limit, when the lifetime of photons in the cavity is smaller than the decay time of excited atoms. In this case, we write the analytical solution of the master equation and show its entanglement. We obtain that entangled states arise from non-entangled initial states of the atoms. The exact description of such a system opens up new possibilities for the processing of quantum information with two optical cavities.
A class of quasi-exact solutions of the Rabi Hamiltonian, which describes a two-level atom interacting with a single-mode radiation field via a dipole interaction without the rotating-wave approximation, are obtained by using a wavefunction ansatz. Exact solutions for part of the spectrum are obtained when the atom-field coupling strength and the field frequency satisfy certain relations. As an example, the lowest exact energy level and the corresponding atom-field entanglement at the quasi-exactly solvable point are calculated and compared to results from the Jaynes–Cummings and counter-rotating cases of the Rabi Hamiltonian.