Acta Physica Sinica
INFLUENCE OF THE VIRTUAL PHOTON FIELD ON THE PERIODIC DECAY AND REVIVAL EFFECT OF AN ATOM
PENG JIN-SHENG, LI GAO-XIANG, Peng Zhou, (1)湖北教育学院物理系,武汉,430060; (2)华中师范大学物理系,武汉,430070
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the time evolution of the atomic operators of a two-level atom interacting with the field via a two-photon process within and without the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) by means of non-relativestic QED. We also verified that the virtual photon field is the cause for quantum chaos embodied by the periodic decay and revival effect of the atom using the numerical and analytic methods, and discussed the reason of neglecting the in-fluence of the virtual photon field on the revival time.