We start from a Hamiltonian describing non-interacting fermions and add bosons to the model, with a Jaynes-Cummings-like interaction between the bosons and fermions. Because of the specific form of the interaction the model can be solved exactly. In the ground state, part of the electrons form bound pairs with opposite momentum and spin. The model also shows a gap in the kinetic energy of the fermions, but not in the spectrum of the full Hamiltonian. This gap is not of a mean-field nature, but is due to the Pauli exclusion principle.
In this article we present a simple and unified procedure to solve various nonlinear two-level Jaynes-Cummings models. By establishing their similarity to the model describing a spin- particle in a magnetic field, we obtain the standardized forms, appropriate uniformly for all Jaynes-Cummings models, of eigenvalues, eigenstates, evolution, and atomic inversion operators. In this way, we show that the analytical solution of any single-mode and two-mode nonlinear Jaynes-Cummings model can easily be obtained. We also apply this procedure to a three-mode Jaynes-Cummings model.