Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
Influence of phase damping on nonclassical properties of the two-mode Jaynes Cummings model
H. A. Hessian, Helmut Ritsch
Abstract
We study the effect of phase damping in the two-mode Jaynes–Cummings model (JCM) using a master equation describing phase damping under the Markovian approximation. An analytic solution of the master equation for the nondegenerate bimodal multiquanta JCM with phase damping is obtained. We show that phase damping has a less detrimental effect on nonclassical properties of the field than energy damping. In contrast to energy damping the strong nonclassical coherences of a Schrödinger's cat superposition state of two well separated coherent states decay with a similar time constant, independent of the separation of the two states.