arXiv:quant-ph/0310170 · Physical Review A

Field correlations and effective two-level atom-cavity systems

S. Rebić, A. S. Parkins, S. M. Tan

Published Mar 19, 2004• 13 citations

Abstract

We analyze the properties of the second-order correlation functions of the electromagnetic field in atom-cavity systems that approximate two-level systems. It is shown that a recently developed polariton formalism can be used to account for all the properties of the correlations, if the analysis is extended to include two manifolds---corresponding to the ground state and the states excited by a single photon---rather than just two levels.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.69.035804

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