Year: 1986
Type: article
Abstract: The interaction of a single atom with a single quantized field mode is one of the simplest quantum optical models of resonance, yet exhibits a wide variety of non-trivial fundamental features which depend for their existence on field quantization. We discuss such problems with special emphasis on reversible spontaneous emission and one-photon Rabi oscillations, photon statistical collapses and revivals of coherent evolution, and the existence of phase-dependent squeezed quantum noise.
Source: Physica Scripta
Author: P L Knight
Institution: Imperial College London
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2070709893