Geometric Phase of Mixed States in the Resonance Fluorescence Spectrum

Berry phase of mixed state is investigated for modified Bloch equation with constant terms, which was used to explain sidebands in the spectrum of fluorescent light. The results show that for the physical phenomenon of sidebands, the Berry phases under the quasicyclic evolution exhibit as a geometric phase transition, where the transition point and region depend fully on the dynamics of population inversion and mixed degree. We find that, furthermore, the transition position is correlated to photon number. Thus the open quantum system preserves indeed a memory of its evolution in terms of the Berry phase, which may provide another clue for looking for devices of quantum memory in terms of geometric sideband approach.     

Derivation of bloch equations from the time convolutionless generalized master equation

The generalized Bloch equations (GBE) describing the temporal evolution of a single two-level atom interacting with a classical external field of arbitrary intensity and with a thermodynamic bath are obtained from the time convolutionless generalized master equation or equivalently from the Tokuyama-Mori identity. These GBE are then used to calculate the absorption spectrum of a single two-level atom with frequency modulated by dichotomic noise with time-dependent transition probability.     

Geometric Phase in a Two Energy Level <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-Photon Jaynes-Cummings Model with Imaginary Photon Process

By using the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant theory, we have studied the dynamical phase and the geometric phase in a two energy level k-photon Jaynes-Cummings model with imaginary photon process. We find that the geometric phase in a cycle case is independent of the frequency of the photon field, the coupling coefficient between photons and atoms, and the atom transition frequency. We predict the physical effect of the geometric phase in the imaginary photon process may be measured.     

非马尔可夫环境下原子的几何相位演化

从微观哈密顿量出发,研究了原子在非马尔可夫环境影响下的几何相位演化. 结果表明,在强耦合条件下原子的几何相位比弱耦合时获得的几何相位大, 而且这一差别随环境损耗的增加而增大. 在环境损耗较小时,原子的几何相位随时间变化出现连续和不连续两种演化行为,且不连续的范围随环境的损耗增加而增大. 总之,在非马尔可夫环境下,原子的几何相位演化将出现丰富而复杂的演化特征. 关键词： 几何相位 原子 腔场 非幺正     

Steady-state populations of a driven three-level atom in a broad-band squeezed vacuum

A theoretical study is made of the steady-state populations of a three-level atom in a ladder configuration, driven by a superposition of a monochromatic laser wave with a broad-band squeezed vacuum. The master equation for the system and the atomic Bloch equations are derived. The steady-state populations are calculated numerically and shown graphically as functions of two-photon detuning for various cases of the squeezed vacuum. It is shown that, the atomic populations depend strongly on the relative phase of the driving field and the squeezed vacuum. When the phase matching condition is fulfilled, there will be a strong two-photon resonant absorption from the squeezed vacuum, a characteristic different from absorption of photons from a classical field. Received: 28 May 1997 / Revised and Accepted: 10 December 1997     

The geometric phase of a two-level atom in a narrow-bandwidth squeezed vacuum

In this paper, we derive the time dependent solution of the effective master equation for the reduced density matrix operator of a two level atom driven by a coherent laser field and damped by a finite bandwidth squeezed vacuum. The results show that the initial state setting, detuning parameter and Rabi frequency play important roles in the evolution of the system dynamics and geometric phase. We present a useful way for controlling the geometric phase variation for the system under consideration.     

原子在压缩光场中的吸收与色散

本文导出了一二能级原子系综与多模压缩光场相互作用的Bloch方程。在此基础上求得了原子对压缩光的吸收与色散。结果表明,对于不同的压缩条件,吸收线型呈现亚自然与超自然线宽现象。而原子的色散行为明显依赖于光场起伏的压缩方向与振幅的相干激发方向。当这两个方向不平行或垂直时,色散零点相对于原子跃迁频率发生移位。 关键词：     

Geometric Phase in Fluctuating Magnetic Field

Geometric phase in a two-level atom with a fluctuating magnetic field is calculated by a nonunit vector ray in a complex projective Hilbert space, where the nonunit vector is a map connecting with density matrices of a quantum open system. We find that the Pancharatnam phase oscillates with evolving time. The Berry phase depends on the fluctuating parameter but it is proportional to the area spanned in the Bloch parameter space.     

原子-辐射场相互作用系统量子统计力学的相干态表述

用Ｈｅｉｓｅｎｂｅｒｇ－ｗｅｙｌｅ（简称Ｈ－Ｗ）群直积ＳＵ（２）群上的相干态表述了原子－辐射场相互作用系统的量子统计力学,引入一个新定义的分布函数,将平衡态下密度矩阵的Ｂｌｏｃｈ方程转换成可分离变量的偏微分方程,给出了方程的形式解,算符和其平均值的表示。     

Classical and quantum mechanical resonance fluorescence

We study resonance fluorescence from a two-level atom illuminated by coherent and incoherent light. Especially, we treat the case of an intense incoherent component which is broad band and chaotic in character.New insights into the phenomenon of resonance fluorescence are obtained by constructing certain analogies with the precession of a classical (Bloch) vector around a classical stochastic field. The analogies are based on a representation of the density operator of the two-level atoms as a diagonal mixture of directed angular momentum states.As long as the whole light field is an imposed one the weight function of the mixture mentioned above describes a random sequence of rotations of the Bloch vector and obeys a simple Fokker Planck equation. If, however, the incoherent component of the light field acts as a zero- or finite temperature heat bath, the equation of motion for the weight function is no longer a Fokker Planck equation. Nontheless, we find the exact solution and calculate the correlation functions relevant to a discussion of the spectrum and of antibunching effects.     

Nonstationary dissipative dynamics of a single qubit

We study numerically the effects of spontaneous emission from the upper state in a single two-level atom (qubit) driven by a field of constant amplitude and frequency varying linearly in time, crossing the atomic resonance, the Landau-Zener model, using a discontinuous jump quantum trajectory formalism. A single trajectory describes the pure state atomic evolution during the sweep of the field frequency across the atomic transition. Each jump returns the atom to its ground state, but the behavior of reexcitation depends on the time the jump occurred: before, near, or after the resonance, as a result of the nonstationary nature of the Landau-Zener model. The evolution of the Bloch vector during a single trajectory is unitary (a pure state preserves the trace), but shows the stochastic nature of the particular qubit history. The ensemble average, which agrees with the Bloch equations, shows that spontaneous emission causes both the shrinking of the Bloch vector shortly after crossing the resonance and its recovery for longer times. The quantum jump approach allows a simple calculation of the distribution of emissions per sweep. Its mean agrees with the integrated emission rate, the variance increases with the field strength and decay rate, and the zero-jump value of the distribution gives the fraction of trajectories without a jump.     

单轴应力场下钨中氦扩散行为的分子动力学模拟研究

本文采用分子动力学方法研究了沿<100>及<111>晶向的单轴应变对钨中单个氦原子扩散的影响。结果表明,应变会使得金属钨材料发生相变,且引起相变的临界应变随温度升高而减小。相变起始的应变在达到抗拉强度的应变附近。计算结果表明,拉应变使得单个氦原子在钨中的扩散系数发生骤降,在不同应变下扩散系数变化平缓。沿<100>晶向氦扩散系数随应变的增大而线性减小,而<111>晶向则出现了震荡变化趋势。研究结果表明,沿<100>晶向应变达到+0.15%时阿纽列斯方程不再适用,而沿<111>晶向应变大+5%阿纽列斯方程仍然适用;沿<111>晶向随应变增加氦扩散激活能减小,说明应变使得单个氦原子在钨中迁移性增强。     

Numerical method for hydrodynamic modulation equations describing Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices

We present a finite difference method to solve a new type of nonlocal hydrodynamic equations that arise in the theory of spatially inhomogeneous Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices. The hydrodynamic equations describe the evolution of the electron density, electric field and the complex amplitude of the Bloch oscillations for the electron current density and the mean energy density. These equations contain averages over the Bloch phase which are integrals of the unknown electric field and are derived by singular perturbation methods. Among the solutions of the hydrodynamic equations, at a 70 K lattice temperature, there are spatially inhomogeneous Bloch oscillations coexisting with moving electric field domains and Gunn-type oscillations of the current. At higher temperature (300 K) only Bloch oscillations remain. These novel solutions are found for restitution coefficients in a narrow interval below their critical values and disappear for larger values. We use an efficient numerical method based on an implicit second-order finite difference scheme for both the electric field equation (of drift-diffusion type) and the parabolic equation for the complex amplitude. Double integrals appearing in the nonlocal hydrodynamic equations are calculated by means of expansions in modified Bessel functions. We use numerical simulations to ascertain the convergence of the method. If the complex amplitude equation is solved using a first order scheme for restitution coefficients near their critical values, a spurious convection arises that annihilates the complex amplitude in the part of the superlattice that is closer to the cathode. This numerical artifact disappears if the space step is appropriately reduced or we use the second-order numerical scheme.     

Markovian master equation for a two-level atom in a strong field and/or a tailored reservoir

The master equation for a two-level atom driven by a strong classical field and damped into a tailored reservoir with nonflat density of modes is derived under the Born-Markov approximation. To derive the master equation, the dressing transformation on the atomic operators is performed first, and, next, the dressed operators are coupled to the reservoir and the corresponding damping rates are calculated. The effects of a strong field and/or structured reservoir are seen as nonstandard terms in the master equation, some of which are reminiscent of terms known for squeezed vacuum reservoirs. The master equation leads to the generalized optical Bloch equations that can easily be solved for the steady state and, together with the quantum regression theorem, allow for analytical expressions for the fluorescence, as well as absorption spectra.     

Quantum Phase and Nonlocal Correlations for a Three-Level System Interacting with Laser Light in a Nonlinear Kerr Medium Under Decoherence

In this paper, we study the time evolution of the geometric phase and nonlocal correlations for a three-level atom interacting with the quantum field emerged in a nonlinear Kerr medium. We discuss the dependence of the physical quantifiers on the phase damping effect. We examine the effects of the initial state and different system parameters on the evolution of the nonlocal correlation and geometric phase with and without the phase damping effect. Furthermore, we explore the link between the geometric phase and the nonlocal correlation during the time evolution. Finally, we show that the model proposed will be very useful to avoid the phase damping effect by a proper choice of the physical parameters in the field for both cases of the initial pure and mixed states of the three-level atom.     

Spontaneous emission from Bloch states of a two-level atom in a periodic field of the biparabolic shape

By analogy with the Wigner-Weisskopf model, spontaneous emission of an atom is considered in a spatially periodic field of the resonance counter-propagating waves. The Bloch state obtained by the interaction of the initially excited (unexcited) atom with a field of the counter-propagating waves plays the role of the excited (ground) state of the free atom. The spontaneous emission probability averaged over polarizations is shown to become anisotropic, with the symmetry axis directed along the wave propagation path. The anisotropy is caused by the spatially periodic distribution of the wave function of the translational motion of an atom in the external field. The degree of anisotropy depends on the position of Bloch energy levels in the allowed bands of the energy spectrum.     

Formulation of Zeeman modulation as a signal filter

The Bloch equation containing a Zeeman modulation field is solved analytically by treating the Zeeman modulation frequency as a perturbation. The absorption and dispersion signals at both 0 degrees and 90 degrees modulation phase are obtained. The solutions are valid to first order in the modulation frequency, but are otherwise valid for any value of modulation amplitude or microwave amplitude. A first order treatment of modulation frequency is shown to be a valid approximation over a wide range of typical experimental EPR conditions. The solutions derived from the Bloch equation suggest that the effect of over-modulation on first and second harmonic EPR spectra can be formulated as a mathematical filter that smoothes and broadens the under-modulated signal. The only adjustable filter parameter is a width that is equivalent to the applied peak-to-peak modulation amplitude. The true spin-spin and spin-lattice relaxation rates are completely determined from the under-modulated spectrum. The filters derived from the analytic solutions of the Bloch equation in the linear limit of modulation frequency are tested against numerical solutions of the Bloch equation that are valid for any modulation frequency to show their applicability. The filters are further tested using experimental EPR spectra. Experimental under-modulated spectra are mathematically filtered and compared with the experimental over-modulated spectra. The application of modulation filters to STEPR spectra is explored and limitations are discussed.     

Nonadiabatic Geometric Phase and Induced Persistent Current in Mesoscopic Square Circuit with Tilted Magnetic Field at Edges

We investigate the geometric phase produced by nonadiabatic transition of spin states at corners of mesoscopic square circuit with tilted magnetic field at its edges, From the Schrodlnger equation, the transitions of electron spin state at corners are described by the transfer matrices. The eigenenergies and eigenstates are obtained from the cyclic condition and the multiplying of the transfer matrices. We show that there exist persistent charge and spin currents in such a system due to the lift of degeneracy between the opposite moving directions in the presence of the tilted magnetic field. The dependences of eigenenergies, geometric phase, charge and spin persistent currents on the tilting angles of magnetic field are analysed.     

Scaling of geometric phases close to the quantum phase transition in the XY spin chain

We show that the geometric phase of the ground state in the XY model obeys scaling behavior in the vicinity of a quantum phase transition. In particular we find that the geometric phase is nonanalytical and its derivative with respect to the field strength diverges at the critical magnetic field. Furthermore, the universality in the critical properties of the geometric phase in a family of models is verified. In addition, since the quantum phase transition occurs at a level crossing or avoided level crossing and these level structures can be captured by the Berry curvature, the established relation between the geometric phase and quantum phase transitions is not a specific property of the XY model, but a very general result of many-body systems.     

DISTANCE BETWEEN DENSITY OPERATORS IN MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES

In this paper we investigate the distance between density operators in multiphoton processes. We study the distances between the time-evolved states of the atom, of the field, and of the total system and their respective reference states, compare them with the atomic inversion as well as the purity of the field, disclose their corresponding relations in various multiphoton processes. The physical interpretations are given by using a fully quantized Bloch equation in the two-photon process.