Physica Scripta
Emission spectra of a pair of two-level atoms interacting with a quantized optical field in an ideal cavity
Weifeng Wang, Xueji Xu
Abstract
This article investigates the interaction of a pair of two-level atoms with a quantized radiation field in an ideal cavity, taking into account the dipole-dipole interaction between the two atoms. One-photon and two-photon transitions are treated. It is found that the spectra have eight completely asymmetric peaks in both cases. For an intense field in both processes, a striking feature with five asymmetrically distributed peaks is recorded if ga γ where ga is the dipole-dipole coupling constant and γ is the detector's width. If the atoms' coupling is weak and the spectrometer's resolution is low, say ga < γ, then only a three-peak structure can be obtained.