Rabi oscillations and generalizations

Kazuyuki Fujii

In the preceding paper quant-ph/0312060 we considered a general model of an atom with n energy levels interacting with n-1 external laser fields and constructed a Rabi oscillation in the case of n =3, 4 and 5. In the paper we present a systematic method getting along with computer to construct a Rabi oscillation in the general case.

Brian P. Anderson

Alexander Moroz

A. Zh. Muradyan, V. A. Poghosyan

It is shown that the population Rabi oscillations in a lossless two-level atom, interacting with a monochromatic electromagnetic field, in general, are convergent in time. The well-known continuous oscillations take place because the restricted choosing of initial conditions, that is, when the atom is chosen on ground or excited level before the interaction, simultaneously having a definite value of momentum there. The convergence of Rabi oscillations in atomic wave-packet states is a direct consequence of the Doppler effect on optical transition rates (Rabi frequencies): it gradually leads to ``irregular'' chaotic-type distributions of momentum in ground and excited energy levels, smearing the amplitudes of Rabi oscillations. Conjointly with Rabi oscillations, the coherent accumulation of momentum on each internal energy level monotonically diminishes too.

Bi Qiao, Jiayin Gu

A quantum computation for the Rabi oscillation based on quantum dots in the subdynamic system is presented. The working states of the original Rabi oscillation are transformed to the eigenvectors of subdynamic system. Then the dissipation and decoherence of the system are only shown in the change of the eigenvalues as phase errors since the eigenvectors are fixed. This allows both dissipation and decoherence controlling to be easier by only correcting relevant phase errors. This method can be extended to general quantum computation systems.

Andrzej J. Maciejewski, Maria Przybylska, Tomasz Stachowiak