Quantum and Semiclassical Optics Journal of the European Optical Society Part B

Joint Wigner function for atom - field interactions

Attila Czirják, M. G. Benedict

Published Oct 1, 1996• 16 citations

Abstract

We define a joint Wigner function to give a fully phase space description for the interacting system of the quantized electromagnetic field and two-level atoms. We give its equation of motion in the single-atom case using the Jaynes - Cummings model for the interaction.

DOI: 10.1088/1355-5111/8/5/003

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