Title :
Effect of Spontaneous Decay on the Rabi Population Oscillation of a Two-Level Atom Coupled to a Monochromatic Field
Author :
Lee, Sun Kyung ; Lee, Hai-Woong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon
Abstract :
We investigate effects of spontaneous decay on the Rabi population oscillation exhibited by a two-level atom driven by a monochromatic field. We show that the semiclassical theory and the fully quantum-mechanical theory predict in general different damping rates of the Rabi oscillation.
Keywords :
atom-photon collisions; quantum optics; quantum theory; Rabi population oscillation; damping; monochromatic field; quantum-mechanicai theory; semiciassicai theory; spontaneous decay; two-level atom; Absorption; Atom optics; Atomic measurements; Damping; Physics; Quantum mechanics; Resonance; Spontaneous emission; Stationary state; Sun;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim, 2007. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1173-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1174-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2007.4391761
