The Pancharatnam phase of a two-level atom in the presence of another two-level atom in a cavity
Mahmoud Abdel‐Aty · Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics · 2003
In this paper we consider a Hamiltonian modelling a pair of two-level atoms within a perfect cavity for the case of a two-photon transition. Under the exact resonance condition and in the presence of both the Stark shift and phase shift an exact solution to the Schrödinger equation is obtained. Employing this solution gives an analytical expression for the temporal evolution of the Pancharatnam phase when a second atom is allowed to interact with the cavity mode and becomes entangled with the first atom. Numerical investigations are carried out for the phenomena of collapses and revivals for different Stark shift values, the distance between the two atoms and the phase shift. It has been shown that the Pancharatnam phase is affected by the Stark shift and the distance between the two atoms when a nonlinear two-photon process is involved