Jaynes-Cummings models interaction

The branch of quantum optics studying the processes of interaction of one or a few atoms with the quantized cavity modes is usually called cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED). The theoretical concepts of cavity QED are based in the first place on investigation of the Jaynes-Cummings model [67] and its generalizations (for a review, see Ref. 68). The reason for this is that the model describes fairly well the physical processes under consideration and at the same time admits an exact solution. 

The experimental setup described above is suitable to test the Jaynes-Cummings model describing the dynamics of the interaction of a single atom with a single cavity mode. An important requirement is, however, that the atoms of the beam have a homogeneous velocity so that it is possible to observe the Rabi nutation in the cavity directly. In a... 

One of the simplest models which describes characteristic quantum features of the almost resonant interaction of matter with the radiation field is the Jaynes-Cummings-Paul model [21, 22]. In this model a material two-level system interacts with a single mode of the radiation field. In the Schrodinger picture its dynamics is described by the Hamiltonian... 

As mentioned above Rydberg atom experiments in high Q superconducting cavities approach the conditions required to test the Jaynes-Cum-mings [16-18, 31-33] model of interaction between a single two-level atom and a single mode of the electromagnetic field. This model is amenable to an exact analytical solution, and has been the object of extensive theoretical analysis. A number of purely quantum-mechanical... 

Jaynes-Cunnnnings nnodel A model used in quantum optics and atomic physics to describe the interactions between an atom with two energy levels and a quantized mode of an electromagnetic field. This model, which was put forward by the American physicists Edwin Jaynes (1922-98) and Fred Cummings in 1963, has proved to be very useful in establishing which aspects of quantum optics are purely quantum mechanical and which can be dealt with by using quantum mechanics for the two-level atom and classical electrodynamics for the electromagnetic field. 

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