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View SchemaSolvable model of a strongly-driven micromaser
| Authors | P. Lougovski, F. Casagrande, A. Lulli, B. -G. Englert, E. Solano, H. Walther |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0309040 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309040 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.023812 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 69, 023812 (2004). |
Abstract
We study the dynamics of a micromaser where the pumping atoms are strongly driven by a resonant classical field during their transit through the cavity mode. We derive a master equation for this strongly-driven micromaser, involving the contributions of the unitary atom-field interactions and the dissipative effects of a thermal bath. We find analytical solutions for the temporal evolution and the steady-state of this system by means of phase-space techniques, providing an unusual solvable model of an open quantum system, including pumping and decoherence. We derive closed expressions for all relevant expectation values, describing the statistics of the cavity field and the detected atomic levels. The transient regime shows the build-up of mixtures of mesoscopic fields evolving towards a superpoissonian steady-state field that, nevertheless, yields atomic correlations that exhibit stronger nonclassical features than the conventional micromaser.
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"title": "Solvable model of a strongly-driven micromaser",
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