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Journal of Modern Optics

Interaction of Superpositions of Coherent States of Light with Two-level Atoms

A. Vidiella-Barranco, H. M. Moya-Cessa, Vladimír Bužek

Published Jul 1, 1992• 50 citations
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Abstract

We investigate some of the basic features of the interaction of superpositions of coherent states of light with two-level atoms in the framework of the Jaynes-Cummings model. We compare the behaviour of the system in the case of having a coherent superposition state and a statistical mixture of coherent states as an initial field. We investigate the collapses and revivals of the atomic inversion by studying the evolution of the Q function of the cavity field. We also establish the connection between the purity of the field and the collapses and revivals of the atomic inversion.

DOI
10.1080/09500349214551481

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