Journal of Central South University of Technology(Natural Science)
Atomic dipole amplitude-squared squeezing in the coupling system of a three-level atom with radiation field
Zhu Cong
Abstract
This paper studied the atomic dipole amplitude squared squeezing in the system of a three level atom interacting with a single mode radiation vacuum field. Numerical method is adopted to discuss the influence of the relative value of atom field coupling constants and the atomic initial coherence on the squeezing effect. It is found that no squeezing is produced in the process of interaction if the atom is initially most excited or in its ground state. However, if the atom is initially in a coherent superposition state of the ground state and the most excited state, there will be dipole amplitude squared squeezing effect in the process of interaction; the squeezing degree depends on the phase factor relating to atomic initial coherence; when other conditions are fixed, the atom will produced optimum squeezing effect if the probability of atom initially in the most excited state is 1/4 and the probability of it initially in the ground state is 3/4. If none of the atom field coupling constants are zero, the quantities of squeezing vary periodically; the change period of the quantities of squeezing depends on the relative value of two atom field coupling constants.