Journal of Modern Optics
Effects of Phase Fluctuations in the Atom-field Coupling Coefficient of the Jaynes-cummings Model
Amitabh Joshi
Abstract
The Jaynes-Cummings model of a two-level atom interacting with a single quantized mode of radiation field is generalized to include the effects of stochastic phase fluctuations in the atom-field coupling coefficient. The fluctuations are modelled by random telegraph process and an equation for the density operator averaged over the distribution of fluctuations has been obtained. The solution of this equation is used to study the resulting decoherence effects in the dynamical behaviour of the atom and the statistical properties of the field.