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Effective Hamiltonian of the Jaynes–Cummings model beyond rotating-wave approximation*

Yifan Wang, Hong-Hao Yin, Ming-Yue Yang, An-Chun Ji, Qing Sun

Published Jan 8, 2021• 5 citations
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Abstract

The Jaynes–Cummings model with or without rotating-wave approximation plays a major role to study the interaction between atom and light. We investigate the Jaynes–Cummings model beyond the rotating-wave approximation. Treating the counter-rotating terms as periodic drivings, we solve the model in the extended Floquet space. It is found that the full energy spectrum folded in the quasi-energy bands can be described by an effective Hamiltonian derived in the high-frequency regime. In contrast to the Z 2 symmetry of the original model, the effective Hamiltonian bears an enlarged U(1) symmetry with a unique photon-dependent atom-light detuning and coupling strength. We further analyze the energy spectrum, eigenstate fidelity and mean photon number of the resultant polaritons, which are shown to be in accordance with the numerical simulations in the extended Floquet space up to an ultra-strong coupling regime and are not altered significantly for a finite atom-light detuning. Our results suggest that the effective model provides a good starting point to investigate the rich physics brought by counter-rotating terms in the frame of Floquet theory.

DOI
10.1088/1674-1056/abd930

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The Jaynes–Cummings model with or without rotating-wave approximation plays a major role to study the interaction between atom and light. We investigate the Jaynes–Cummings model beyond the rotating-wave approximation. Treating the counter-rotating terms as periodic drivings, we solve the model in the extended Floquet space. It is found that the full energy spectrum folded in the quasi-energy bands can be described by an effective Hamiltonian derived in the high-frequency regime. In contrast to the Z 2 symmetry of the original model, the effective Hamiltonian bears an enlarged U(1) symmetry with a unique photon-dependent atom-light detuning and coupling strength. We further analyze the energy spectrum, eigenstate fidelity and mean photon number of the resultant polaritons, which are shown to be in accordance with the numerical simulations in the extended Floquet space up to an ultra-strong coupling regime and are not altered significantly for a finite atom-light detuning. Our results suggest that the effective model provides a good starting point to investigate the rich physics brought by counter-rotating terms in the frame of Floquet theory.
In this paper, we investigate various dynamical properties of the Jaynes–Cummings (JC) model beyond the rotating wave approximation (RWA). We first show that in the absence of the RWA, the JC Hamiltonian can be transformed into an intensity-dependent Hamiltonian. Corrections produced by the counter-rotating terms (CRTs) appear in the first order as the intensity-dependent detuning, i.e. the dynamical Stark shift and in the second order as the intensity-dependent atom–field coupling. Then, by determining the atom–field wavefunction evolution, we study the effects of CRTs on various dynamical properties of the JC model, including the atomic population inversion, atomic dipole squeezing, atomic entropy squeezing, photon counting statistics, quadrature field squeezing, field entropy squeezing and quantum phase properties of the cavity field.
The Jaynes-Cummings model without the rotating-wave approximation can be solved exactly by extended Swain's ansatz with the conserved parity. The analytical approximations are then performed at different levels. The well-known rotating-wave approximation is naturally covered in the present zero and first approximations. The effect of the counter rotating-wave term emerges clearly in the second order approximation. The concise analytical expressions are given explicitly and can be applicable up to the ultra-strong coupling regime. The preliminary application to the vacuum Rabi splitting is shown to be very successful.
The extended quantum Rabi models make a significant contribution to understanding of the quantum nature of the atom-light interaction. We transform two kinds of extended quantum Rabi model, the anisotropic Rabi model and the asymmetric Rabi model, into the rotating frame and regard them as periodically driven quantum systems. The analytical solutions of the quasienergy spectrum as well as the Floquet modes for both models are constructed by applying the Floquet theory and the high-frequency expansion, which is applied to the nonstroboscopic dynamics of physical observables such as atomic inversion, transverse magnetization, and atom-field correlation. For the anisotropic Rabi model, the quasienergy fits well with the numerical results even when the rotating-wave coupling is in the deep strong-coupling regime $g\ensuremath{\simeq}\ensuremath{\hbar}\ensuremath{\omega}$ if the counter-rotating term is small enough compared to the driving frequency. Avoided level crossing may occur for quasienergy with the same parity when the positive branch spectrum lines for the total excitation number NNN cross the negative branch lines for N+2N+2N+2, while the high-frequency expansion fails to predict this due to the conservation of the total excitation number. Furthermore, we present analytical and numerical studies of the long-time evolution of population and conclude that the analytical method is credible for the population dynamics. For the asymmetric Rabi model, we find that the external bias field which breaks the parity symmetry of the total excitation number tends to cluster the upper and lower branches into two bundles, and the detuning induced gap in the first temporal Brillouin zone shows a quadratic dependence on the bias. Fourier analysis is applied to extract the frequency composition and two-frequency driving behavior is revealed. Varying the bias strength will change the time-averaged value of the oscillation, which shows how the bias competes with the detuning and atom-field coupling in the driving dynamics. Both models prove that treating the Hamiltonian in the rotating frame by Floquet theory gives an alternative tool in the study of interaction between atom and light.
We study analytically and numerically the properties of the Jaynes-Cummings model under monochromatic driving. The analytical results allow us to understand the regime of two branches of multiphoton excitation in the case of close resonance between resonator and driven frequencies. The rotating wave approximation allows us to reduce the description of the original driven model to an effective Jaynes-Cummings model with strong coupling between photons and qubit. The analytical results are in good agreement with the numerical ones even if there are certain deviations between the theory and numerics in the close vicinity of the resonance. We argue that the rich properties of the driven Jaynes-Cummings model represent a new area for experimental investigations with superconducting qubits and other systems.
We have investigated the eigenenergy spectrum of the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings (JC) model with and without the rotating-wave approximation (RWA). Our analysis has indicated that the counter-rotating term dramatically changes the nature of the RWA energy spectrum and that the non-RWA spectrum can be approximated by the RWA spectrum only in the range of a sufficiently small coupling constant. Furthermore, unlike the one-photon counterpart, the two-photon JC model without the RWA is well defined only if the coupling parameter is below a certain critical value. As a result, the dynamics of the two-photon JC model without the RWA is significantly different from its RWA counterpart. For instance, the counter-rotating term can dramatically enhance the field squeezing effect. Besides, we would expect that the quantum dynamics of the two-photon JC model without the RWA is qualitatively different from that of the usual one-photon case.
The eigenenergy spectrum of the Jaynes–Cummings (JC) model with and without the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) is investigated. The numerical analysis indicates that the non-RWA spectrum can only be approximated by the RWA in the range of sufficiently small coupling constant and detuning. In other region, the counter-rotating terms remarkably change the nature of the RWA energy spectrum. A simple expression with high accuracy for ground eigenenergy and eigenvector for non-RWA is available. The ground eigenvector for non-RWA shows that the ground state is not a dark state and very different from that of RWA which is a dark state.