Institution: | a Departamento de Química, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida 5101, Venezuela b Departamento de Química, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela c Escuela de Química, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela |
Abstract: | In this paper we derive analytical expressions for the optical susceptibility of a two-level system immersed in a thermal bath and interacting with an external electromagnetic field, where both of them are considered as noise sources. The dynamics of the system is described by a set of optical stochastic Bloch equations. The noise sources are modeled as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. The optical stochastic Bloch equations are perturbatively solved up to second order in the external field. We found that each noise affects the dynamics in a different manner. Thus, at first order, the bath modifies the transverse relaxation time, whereas the effect of a random field can only be appreciated if the expansion is calculated up to second order, where correlations begin to be important. |