Yacob Ben-Aryeh et al 2004 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 12059 doi:10.1088/0305-4470/37/50/008
Yacob Ben-Aryeh, Ady Mann and Itamar Yaakov
Show affiliationsRabi oscillations of a two-level atomic system with damping effects are described by the use of a pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian. The Rabi frequency and the amplitudes for being in the upper and lower level depend in the present system on both the Hermitian resonant interaction between the em field and the atomic dipole and on damping effects. The time development of the two-level system is studied by using the metric of the pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian and its bi-orthonormal basis of states. The special characteristics of the present system are related to PT (parity-time reversal) and C (generalized conjugation operator) invariant properties of the pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian.
03.65.Ge Solutions of wave equations: bound states
42.50.Ct Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments
Issue 50 (17 December 2004)
Received 27 August 2004, in final form 21 October 2004
Published 1 December 2004
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