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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Chaotic vacuum Rabi oscillations with moving two-level atoms in cavity QED: a new kind of reversible spontaneous emission

Igor Leonidovich Kirilyuk, Leonid E. Kon’kov, Sergey V. Prants

Published Feb 25, 1999• 0 citations
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Abstract

We study nonlinear dynamics in the fundamental cavity QED system, consisting of a point-like collection of two-level atoms moving through a single-mode cavity, with a spatially inhomogenous field. In the semiclassical, strong-coupling and rotating-wave approximations, the model is shown to be integrable with atoms moving at exact resonance through a cavity with an arbitrary spatial profile of the mode along the propagation axis. The general exact semiclassical solution is derived in an explicit form, in terms of Jacobian elliptic functions. Numerical simulation confirms that perturbations, which are produced by a modulation of the coupling between moving atoms and a cavity mode, provide, our of resonance, a mechanism responsible for Hamiltonian chaos. Taking into account the interatomic quantum correlations, we go beyond the semiclassical model and derive a dynamical system, which is able to describe vacuum Rabi oscillation with moving atoms. At resonance, this system is again shown to be integrable with a general semiquantum solution found. Out of resonance, it can demonstrate chaotic vacuum Rabi oscillations, which may be considered as a new kind of reversible spontaneous emission.

DOI
10.1117/12.340146

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