arXiv:atom-ph/9604008 · Physical Review A

Right-unitary transformation theory and applications

Zhong Feng Tang

Published Jul 1, 1996• 4 citations

Abstract

We develop a transformation theory in quantum physics, where the transformation operators, defined in the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, have right-unitary inverses only. Through several theorems, we discuss the properties of state space of such operators. As one application of the right-unitary transformation (RUT), we show that using the RUT method, we can solve exactly various interactions of many-level atoms with quantized radiation fields, where the energy of atoms can be two levels, three levels in \ensuremath{\Lambda}, V, and \ensuremath{\equiv} configurations, and up to higher (>3) levels. These interactions have wide applications in atomic physics, quantum optics, and quantum electronics. In this paper, we focus on two typical systems: one is a two-level generalized Jaynes-Cummings model, where the cavity field varies with the external source; the other one is the interaction of a three-level atom with quantized radiation fields, where the atoms have \ensuremath{\Lambda}-configuration energy levels, and the radiation fields are one-mode or two-mode cavities. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.54.154

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