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View SchemaCollapse and revival of ultracold atoms in a microwave cavity and of photons in parametric down-conversion
| Authors | Karl-Peter Marzlin, J"urgen Audretsch |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9708001 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9708001 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.1333 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A57 (1998) 1333 |
Abstract
We present a new theoretical method to study a trapped gas of bosonic two-level atoms interacting with a single mode of a microwave cavity. This interaction is described by a trilinear Hamiltonian which is formally completely equivalent to the one describing parametric down-conversion in quantum optics. A system of differential equations describing the evolution, including the long-time behaviour, of not only the mean value but also the variance of the number of excited atoms is derived and solved analytically. For different initial states the mean number of excited atoms exhibits periodically reappearing dips, with an accompanying peak in the variance, or fractional collapses and revivals. Closed expressions for the period and the revival time are obtained.
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