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Physical Review A

Theory of the interaction of a single-mode radiation field with N two-level atoms. II. Time evolution of the statistics of the system

Sunil Kumar, C. L. Mehta

Published Sep 1, 1981• 31 citations
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Abstract

In an earlier paper, we considered a Hamiltonian trilinear in boson operators, which described several physical systems of interest such as interaction of $N$ two-level atoms with a single-mode resonant radiation field, parametric amplification, frequency conversion, Raman and Brillouin scattering, etc. We found that the dynamics of the system can almost exactly be determined if either one of the three modes is strong for all times or any two modes are separately strong in two complementary time domains. In the present paper, we determine the statistical behavior of the system in each case. We give explicit results for a number of initial states (e.g., coherent, chaotic, a mixture of coherent and chaotic, number state, etc.) of the modes 1, 2, and 3.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.24.1460

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The quantum theory of the stimulated Raman and Brillouin effects, the parametric amplifier, and the frequency converter is developed, starting with a simple Hamiltonian for a system of three coupled field modes. The intense incident beam is treated classically. The evolution in time of the statistical properties of the quantized Stokes and anti-Stokes waves are analyzed by means of appropriate time-dependent phasespace distributions under various assumptions for the initial fields. Expansions of the field variables in terms of complete sets of orthogonal operators are discussed. Several regimes of operation are considered. It is shown that an initially coherent state develops, in general, into a superposition of a coherent state and a chaotic state. The amplitudes of the coherent components follow the same equations of motion as the mode operators. The chaotic components stem from the amplification of the vacuum fluctuations.
A method utilising the coherent state variables for the electromagnetic field and appropriate spin variables for two-level atomsis developed for obtaining the dynamical evolution of the field and the atoms separately. The case of a single radiation mode interacting with two two-level atoms is studied. The time evolution of the photon number, starting from n photons and both atoms at their higher levels, is given. Furthermore, when the initial state consists of n photons and one of the atoms in its excited state with the other in its ground state, the temporal development of the photon number, as well as the motion of each atom, are obtained. In the latter case it becomes apparent that energy exchange takes place among the atomic systems, while the field acts as a transfer agent.
The amplification of electromagnetic fields is analyzed in a quantum-mechanical context by discussing the behavior of a simple theoretical model of the parametric amplifier. The statistical properties of the amplifier fields are described by means of the time-dependent density operator for the system. In doing this, extensive use is made of the coherent states and the PPP representation of the density operator, which provide a quantum-mechanical description of the fields closely resembling their classical description. Explicit solutions are obtained for the density operator for either of the two field modes for a variety of initial states of the modes. Initial states considered include combinations of coherent states, chaotic mixtures, and nnn-quantum states. Particular attention is given the behavior of the amplifier fields in the limit of large amplification. The conditions are established under which the amplification process leads in this limit to the existence of a non-negative PPP representation for the density operator for a single mode of oscillation.