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The Jaynes-Cummings model and raising and lowering operators
Véronique Hussin, L M Nieto
Abstract
Ladder operators acting on the energy eigenstates of the Jaynes-Cummings model in the rotating wave approximation are constructed using the fact that they satisfy some reasonable additionnal properties. In fact, we show that it is possible to write the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian as a product of such ladder operators. It may be relevant for the study of new sets of coherent states for this model.