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Communications in Theoretical Physics

Exact Solution of a Many-Level Atom Interacting with a Monochromatic Field Without Rotating Wave Approximation

Feng Mang, Fang Ximing, Shi Lei, Duan Yiwu, Zhu Xiwen

Published Mar 15, 1999• 1 citation
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Abstract

In the coherent-state representation, the technique applied to the Jaynes-Cummings (JC) model in the absence of rotating wave approximation (RWA) is extended to the treatment of a many-level atom interacting with a monochromatic field. Some general results are presented.
DOI
10.1088/0253-6102/31/2/175

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