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Comparison of classical and second quantized description of the dynamic Stark shift

Haas, M, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Christoph H. Keitel

Published Oct 17, 2005• 16 citations
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Abstract

We compare the derivation of the dynamic Stark shift of hydrogenic energy levels in a classical framework with an adiabatically damped laser-atom interaction, which is equivalent to the Gell-Mann-Low-Sucher formula, and a treatment based on time-independent perturbation theory, with a second-quantized laser-atom dipole interaction Hamiltonian. Our analysis applies to a laser that excites a two-photon transition in atomic hydrogen or in a hydrogenlike ion with low nuclear charge number. Our comparisons serve to demonstrate why the dynamic Stark shift may be interpreted as a stimulated radiative correction and illustrates connections between the two derivations. The simplest of the derivations is the fully quantized approach. The classical and the second-quantized treatment are shown to be equivalent in the limit of large photon numbers.

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We compare the derivation of the dynamic Stark shift of hydrogenic energy levels in a classical framework with an adiabatically damped laser-atom interaction, which is equivalent to the Gell-Mann-Low-Sucher formula, and a treatment based on time-independent perturbation theory, with a second-quantized laser-atom dipole interaction Hamiltonian. Our analysis applies to a laser that excites a two-photon transition in atomic hydrogen or in a hydrogenlike ion with low nuclear charge number. Our comparisons serve to demonstrate why the dynamic Stark shift may be interpreted as a stimulated radiative correction and illustrates connections between the two derivations. The simplest of the derivations is the fully quantized approach. The classical and the second-quantized treatment are shown to be equivalent in the limit of large photon numbers.
We compare the derivation of the dynamic Stark shift of hydrogenic energy levels in a classical framework with an adiabatically damped laser-atom interaction, which is equivalent to the Gell-Mann-Low-Sucher formula, and a treatment based on time-independent perturbation theory, with a second-quantized laser-atom dipole interaction Hamiltonian. Our analysis applies to a laser that excites a two-photon transition in atomic hydrogen or in a hydrogenlike ion with low nuclear charge number. Our comparisons serve to demonstrate why the dynamic Stark shift may be interpreted as a stimulated radiative correction and illustrates connections between the two derivations. The simplest of the derivations is the fully quantized approach. The classical and the second-quantized treatment are shown to be equivalent in the limit of large photon numbers.
The analytic derivation of the dynamic Stark shift of hydrogenic energy levels in the presence of the circularly polarized laser light is presented. We use the classical framework with considering an adiabatically damped laser+atom interaction and an approach relies on time-independent perturbation theory with a second-quantized laser+atom dipole interaction Hamiltonian. We thus investigate the excitation process in atomic hydrogen or in a hydrogen like ion with low nuclear charge number in the presence of the circularly polarized laser light. The derived formula for the dynamic AC Stark shift of hydrogenic energy levels using these two methods are shown to be same in the limit of large photon numbers.
The stimulated radiative corrections (or ac-Stark shift, or light shift...) of the energy levels of a hydrogenic atom irradiated by an intense, nonresonant, monomode laser field, are evaluated within the framework of the time-dependent perturbation theory, up to and including fourth order. The calculation is performed by using a Sturmian representation of the Coulomb Green's function. Whenever it is possible, comparison is made with other results, and several limiting cases are considered. If the laser frequency $\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$, one recovers the results of the dc-Stark effect. If $2\ensuremath{\omega}$ becomes larger than the ionization energy of the atomic state considered, the fourth-order level shift acquires an imaginary part which may be connected, via an extension of the optical theorem, to the two-photon ionization cross section. We point out also the difficulties encountered, when trying to get sensible estimates from partial summation of the infinite sums entering the perturbative expression of the fourth-order amplitudes. Finally, the order of magnitude of these various corrections is discussed.
A highly excited (Rydberg) atom bathed in blackbody radiation is perturbed in two ways. A dynamic Stark shift is induced by the off-resonant components of the blackbody radiation. Additionally, electric-dipole transitions to other atomic energy levels are induced by the resonant components of the blackbody radiation. This depopulation effect shortens the Rydberg-state lifetime, thereby broadening the energy level. Calculations of these two effects in many states of hydrogen, helium, and the alkali-metal atoms Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs are presented for T=300T=300T=300 K. Contributions from the entire blackbody spectrum and from both discrete and continuous perturbing states are included. The accuracy is considerably greater than that of previous estimates.
In this thesis, we investigate the effect of the dynamical Stark shift on the quantum electrodynamics of an atom undergoing two-photon transitions, interacting with a quantized radiation field in an ideal cavity. To begin with, we discuss the dynamics of the electromagnetic field and the atom in the presence of the Stark shift. We derive closed expressions for the second-order coherence function, quadrature variances, atomic population inversion and dipole squeezing under the approximation of a large initial photon number and coherent or squeezed field input. We show that for an atom initially in the ground state, the inclusion of Stark shift reduces the field squeezing as well as the antibunching. Both the population inversion and the dipole squeezing exhibit phase sensitivity in the presence of Stark shift and for a particular choice of the relative phase of the two atomic levels "trapping" occurs in a two-level atom and the dipole is modified in such a way that it is permanently squeezed. We then discuss the effect of the stark shift on the emission spectrum of an atom and the cavity field spectrum. The inclusion of Stark shift results in asymmetric vacuum field Rabi splitting. We also study the dynamics of the combined atom-field wave function in the presence of the Stark shift and show that both the electromagnetic field and the atom periodically evolve to pure states which are radically different from those in the absence of the Stark shift. Finally, we study the nondegenerate two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model (NTPJCM) in the presence of the Stark shift and show that the dynamics of the NTPJCM in the presence of Stark shift is qualitatively different from the case of the absence of the Stark shift and radically different from the case of degenerate two-photon JCM in the presence of Stark shift.