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Non-Markovian dynamics of a three-level Λ-atom coupled to a structured reservoir: comparison between the weak and strong coupling regimes

Xing Mao Xiao, Mao-Fa Fang, Yan-Ling Li

Published Jan 1, 2011• 4 citations
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Abstract

The dynamics of a three-level Λ-atom coupled to a structured reservoir has been investigated. Comparing the Lorentzian time-dependent decay rate and population dynamics for the weak coupling regime with those for the strong coupling regime, we note that non-Markovian features exist in both regimes, but population dynamics shows fairly different behaviors. Moreover, the different positions of the two transition frequencies with respect to the structured reservoir reduces the influence of non-Markovian effects on population dynamics. Based on the non-Markovianity, we give an intuitive interpretation of the result that the non-Markovian effects have little influence on population dynamics in the weak coupling regime, but have an obvious influence in the strong coupling regime.

DOI
10.1088/0031-8949/83/01/015013

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A two-level atom coupled to a reservoir with Lorentzian spectral response function is considered. It is shown that if the free oscillations of the atomic dipole are suitably modulated by an external field, then the dynamics of the spontaneous decay can be strongly modified. As a result, the probability of finding the atom in an excited state can be large even for very long times. This is because the frequency modulation may lead to both effective detuning of the atom from the resonance with reservoir modes and to effective cancellation of the coupling between the atom and the reservoir. Non-Markovian features of the reservoir are found to be essential for this effect to be observable. Conditions of experimental verifications are provided.
The dynamics of a three-level atom in a cascade (or ladder) configuration with both transitions coupled to a single structured reservoir of quantized electromagnetic field modes is treated using Laplace transform methods applied to the coupled amplitude equations. In this system two-photon excitation of the reservoir occurs, and both sequences for emitting the two photons are allowed and included in the theory. An integral equation is found to govern the complex amplitudes of interest. It is shown that the dynamics of the atomic system is completely determined in terms of reservoir structure functions, which are products of the mode density with the coupling constant squared. This dependence on reservoir structure functions rather than on the mode density or coupling constants alone, shows that it may be possible to extend pseudomode theory to treat multiphoton excitation of a structured reservoir---pseudomodes being introduced in one-one correspondence with the poles of reservoir structure functions in the complex frequency plane. A general numerical method for solving the integral equations based on discretizing frequency space, and applicable to different structured reservoirs such as high-QQQ cavities and photonic band-gap systems, is presented. An application to a high-QQQ-cavity case with identical Lorentzian reservoir structure functions is made, and the non-Markovian decay of the excited state shown. A formal solution to the integral equations in terms of right and left eigenfunctions of a non-Hermitian kernel is also given. The dynamics of the cascade atom, with the two transitions coupled to two separate structured reservoirs of quantized electromagnetic field modes, is treated similarly to the single structured reservoir situation. Again the dynamics only depends on reservoir structure functions. As only one sequence of emitting the two photons now occurs, the integral equation for the amplitudes can be solved analytically. The non-Markovian decay of the excited state is shown for the same high-QQQ-cavity case of identical Lorentzian reservoir structure functions, and differs from that for the single reservoir situation.
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