Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Calculation of the maximal Lyapunov coefficient for the coherent dynamics of three-level atoms in an ideal cavity
Sergey N. Agapov, Alexander V. Gorokhov
Abstract
A coherent dynamics of a three-level atoms in the ideal cavity were investigated. This model evidently generalizes the well-known Tavis-Cummings model of two-level atoms. We have derived a system of equations for the parameters of coherent states associated with the group G = W2˄SU(3). It is shown that this model gives a nontrivial example of the chaotic behavior of the parameters of coherent states, taking into account non-resonant terms in the Hamiltonian. Time dependencies of mean number of the cavity photons and level populations of atoms are computed and maximal Lyapunov coefficient is calculated.