Characteristics of the collective spontaneous emission of a system consisting of two two-level multiphoton-transition atoms excited in a lossless resonant cavity are calculated. The photon-multiplicity collective behaviour is found to affect the photon dynamics and statistics considerably.
Using a perturbation method, constructed in terms of SU(2)-group representations, we investigate the time evolution of the statistics of photons spontaneously emitted by a system of N identical two-level atoms immersed in a single-mode ideal cavity with s atoms initially excited. The phenomenon of collective collapses and revivals is discussed and the collapse and revival times, which are different for odd and even s, are determined. It is shown for s extremely small compared to N that at appropriately chosen time instants the model generates the s-photon-number state (Fock state).
We describe the emission, detection and structure of multiphoton states of light. We include the effect of frequency filtering, which describes, at a fundamental level, physical detection of a quantum emitter. The case of the spontaneous emission of Fock states is treated fully and analytically. We stress this picture by contrasting it to the numerical simulation of two-photon bundles emitted from a two-level system in a cavity. We show that dynamical factors exist that allow for a more robust multiphoton emission than spontaneous emission. We also describe how this relates to thermal light.