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Physical Review A

Population trapping in a Raman-coupled model interacting with a two-mode quantized cavity field

Bimalendu Deb, Gautam Gangopadhyay, Deb Shankar Ray

Published Aug 1, 1993• 21 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the population trapping in a Raman-coupled three-level system interacting with a pump mode and a Stokes mode in a quantized cavity. We show that with an initial atom-field decoupled state and the atomic state prepared in a coherent superposition of two nondegenerate ground states, population trapping occurs when the phase of the atomic dipole is equal to the phase difference of the two modes and the two-mode field state satisfies a specific photon distribution. In the limit of large total photon number, under some specific conditions, the corresponding two-mode trapping state can be identified as a phase difference state. We have studied the variance of superposition mode quadrature and its evolution, statistical properties, and the phase-space properties of the two-mode trapping field state. It has been observed that although under different conditions the two-mode field exhibits both sub- and super-Poissonian statistics, no squeezing is observed in any case.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.48.1400

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