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Physical Review A

Collective collapses and revivals in spontaneous emission of a partially inverted system of two-level atoms: Analytical solution

M. Kozierowski, S. M. Chumakov, J. ŚwiatłLowski, A. A. Mamedov

Published Dec 1, 1992• 29 citations
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Abstract

Applying a perturbation method, constructed in terms of SU(2) group representations, we study spontaneous emission of a system of N identical two-level atoms immersed in a single-mode ideal cavity with s atoms initially inverted. For the cases s\ensuremath{\ge}3, characterized by nonequidistant spectra of the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian, the phenomenon of collective collapses and revivals manifests itself. For s=3 the approximate solution is compared with the exact one and the limit of good applicability of our method is established.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.46.7220

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