Stochastic fluctuations in the Jaynes-Cummings model

S. V. Lawande, Amitabh Joshi · Physical Review A · 1994

The Jaynes-Cummings model of a two-level atom interacting with a single quantized mode of radiation field is generalized to include the effects of stochastic fluctuations in atom-field coupling. The coupling coefficient is assumed to fluctuate in phase and/or in amplitude. The phase fluctuations are described by a Wiener-Levy process and the amplitude fluctuations by a colored Gaussian noise. A secular approximation and the theory of the multiplicative stochastic processes are invoked to derive the master equation for the density operator averaged over both phase and amplitude ensembles. The solution of this equation is used to study the resulting decoherence effects in the dynamical behavior of the atom and the statistical properties of the field.

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