Communications in Theoretical Physics
Effect of Induced Gauge Field in Jaynes–Cummings Atom with Space-Dependent Coupling
En-Ke Tian, Chang-Pu Sun
Abstract
The effect of the motion of mass center of a two-level atom on its transition in a quantized radiation field is studied in this paper by generalizing the Jaynes–Cummings model to include the coupling depending on space degrees of freedom. As an additional geometrical phase—Berry's phase in the oscillation, the effect of the induced gauge field resulting from the Born–Oppenheimer (BO) approximation explicitly exists in the transition probability between the up and down states of atomic quasispin. It is shown that when the atom's kinetic energy is small enough that the BO adiabatic approximation holds for the case with small atom's momentum or large detuning, the adiabatically approximate solutions are applicable and it is possible to localize an atom in the cavity.