Efeitos dissipativos na inversão atômica segundo o modelo de Jaynes-Cummings

Abstract

We study the Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM) which describes the interaction between a two-level atom and a single-mode resonant or quasi-resonant electromagnetic field in the non-dissipative and issipative cases. In particular, we study the atomic population inversion whose behavior presents some aspects of purely quantum origin: collapse and revivals. This observables expectation value can be btained analytically without use of approximations for the non-dissipative case and using first-order perturbation in the dissipative case. We make use of the sum of Poisson and the steepest descents method to obtain analytical formulas for the collapse and for each revival. In this way, we can obtain relevant information like the occurrence time, the maximum amplitude, the approximate frequency, and width. The dissipative JCM models the action of the environment on the quantum system. We show that the characteristic time of the revival diminishes as the interaction with the environment enlarges. We consider the limit in which it becomes experimentally impossible to distinguish the obtained curve from the classical one.