The appearance of nonclassical correlation between light beams due to the interaction with an atom in a three-level two-mode Jaynes-Cummings-type model is examined.
We explore the interaction between a three-level atom and a single-mode quantized cavity, known as the three-level ladder-type Jaynes-Cummings model. By employing the exact solution of the Schrödinger equation, we investigate how the initial conditions of the atom influence the occupation probabilities of the atomic energy levels, average photon number, and the nonclassicality of light, assessed through the Mandel Q(t) parameter and the Wigner function. Our findings are rigorously validated through comprehensive numerical simulations, ensuring robust and consistent outcomes.
Dynamics of atom–field correlations and single-mode nonclassicalities present in the resonant Jaynes–Cummings model are investigated using negativity and entanglement potential for a set of initial states. The study has revealed the interplay among three different types of nonclassicalities present in the model and established that the nonclassicality is continuously exchanged between the field and atom through atom–field correlations. Further, it is observed that the entanglement potential does not capture all single-mode nonclassicality, and there exists some residual nonclassicality in the reduced single-mode states at the output of the beam splitter that is not captured by the entanglement in which single-mode nonclassicality is quantitatively mapped in Asboth’s criterion. Additional layers of beam splitters are added to deplete all the nonclassicality and to reveal that almost all residual nonclassicality is captured with three layers of beam splitters. Further, the reduced states of the atom and field have zero (non-zero) quantum coherence in the Fock basis when the atom–field correlations are maximum if the field (or atom) has zero (non-zero) quantum coherence initially.