Coherent population trapping and partial decoherence in the stochastic limit

DOI10.1007/S10773-006-9057-8zbMath1104.81035arXivquant-ph/0303185OpenAlexW1980747647MaRDI QIDQ2506096

Luigi Accardi, Sergei V. Kozyrev

Publication date: 28 September 2006

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A 2-level atom with degenerate ground state interacting with a quantum field is investigated. We show, that the field drives the state of the atom to a stationary state, which is non-unique, but depends on the initial state of the system through some conserved quantities. This non-uniqueness follows from the degeneracy of the ground state of the atom, and when the ground subspace is two-dimensional, the family of stationary states will depend on a one-dimensional parameter. Only one of the stationary states in this family is a pure state, and this state coincides with the known non-coupled population trapped state (zero population in the excited level. Another one stationary state corresponds to an equal weight mixture of the excited level and of the coupled state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303185

zbMATH Keywords

master equationstochastic limittrapped states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum optics (81V80) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

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