Atomic entropy and its squeezing are investigated for an intensely driven two-level atom in the presence of a broadband-squeezed vacuum field. Specifically, the effect of the field-dependent atomic decay parameter combined with the initial atomic coherent state is examined in detail.
The relaxation process of a single two-level atom driven by an intense resonant coherent field is studied in the presence of a broadband squeezed vacuum field. Generalized forms for the self-field operator and the field-dependent damping coefficients are derived. In the steady state, positive atomic inversion (~5%) is shown for some range of the phase of the squeezed vacuum field. The squeezing-induced enhanced and asymmetric coherence (i.e.?non-zero dispersive atomic polarization) induces profound asymmetry in the side-bands of the Mollow fluorescent spectrum and the absorptive?dispersive spectra near the Rabi side-band frequencies. The case of two and three cooperative atoms, instead of a single atom, shows (i)?positive atomic inversion in the steady state for larger interval of the squeeze phase parameter and more enhanced extrema for the atomic polarization components and (ii) the extra side peaks in the fluorescent spectrum become asymmetric and of dispersive-like profile. Dressed-state analysis in the single-atom case with the field-dependent decay process in the presence of the squeezed vacuum field is presented and shows that the inequality of the (field-dependent) decay rates of the dressed states leads to more positive inversion in the dressed states as compared with the normal vacuum case.
The manuscript investigates the entropy squeezing of a qubit (two-level atom) interacting with the cavity field in the Schrödinger cat states. The effects of the Schrödinger cat states of the field on the squeezing are examined. Our results suggest that entropy squeezing is not sensitive to the superposition features of two coherent states of the Schrödinger cat states. Furthermore, it is found that entropy squeezing occurs as the qubit initially close to its maximally coherent state, and the qubit initially in the maximally coherent state can generate optimal squeezing. This also demonstrates that the atomic coherence has a remarkable effect on the atomic squeezing. On the other hand, we also show how the entropy squeezing is related to the intensity of the initial field.
From a quantum information point of view we study the entropy squeezing of a two-level atom interacting with two modes with intensity-dependent coupling. The Hamiltonian we consider consists of all acceptable forms of nonlinearities. A definition of squeezing is presented for this system, based on information theory. The utility of the definition is illustrated by examining squeezing in the information entropy of a two-level atom in the presence of a nonlinear medium. We examine the influence of the nonlinear interaction, the atomic coherence and the detuning parameter on the properties of the entropy and squeezing of the atomic variables. It is shown that features of the quantum entropy are influenced significantly by the kinds of intensity-dependent atom-field coupling and the nonlinearities of the two-mode fields.
A single two-level atom in a coherently driven cavity and damped by a broadband squeezed vacuum centered about the atomic transition frequency is studied. A second-order Fokker-Planck equation for this system is obtained without using system size expansion. Effects of detunings and cavity decays are also incorporated in the Fokker-Planck equation. This equation is used to study atomic inversion, fluorescent spectrum, and the intensity correlations of the transmitted and fluorescent photons in the bad-cavity limit. Several interesting effects in the atomic inversion, spectrum, and intensity correlations due to the squeezed vacuum are presented. These results are also compared with an atom that is damped by a thermal reservoir.