Physical Review A
Phase, coherence properties, and the numerical analysis of the field in the nonresonant Jaynes-Cummings model
Fan An-fu, Wang Zhi-wei
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the phase and coherence properties of the field in the nonresonant Jaynes-Cummings model. We find the phase distribution to be split into four separate asymmetrically peaked functions. We also find, in the large-detuning limit, that the coherence properties of an originally coherent field occur periodically. We conclude that the phase formalism of Pegg and Barnett [Europhys. Lett. 6, 483 (1988)] and the coherence theory of Glauber [Phys. Rev. 130, 2529 (1963)] are complementary.