Quantum-trajectory analysis of an optical Stern-Gerlach experiment
Young-Tak Chough, Kyungwon An · Physical Review A · 2004
We present a Monte Carlo simulation of a typical cavity-QED experiment on the optical Stern-Gerlach effect in terms of the quantum trajectory method. We show that the phenomenon of wave packet splitting may be experimentally observed even in a moderate coupling regime where the atomic and cavity damping rates are comparable to the atom-field coupling strength.