Wave packet Rabi oscillations in semiclassical cavity QED

Omri Gat

Hebrew University, Department of Physics, Jerusalem, Israel

he Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian is an integrable model of a two-state atom coupled to a cavity electromagnetic mode. I will show how to use its integrability to study the Rabi oscillations of a photon wave packet, by deriving the matrix-valued phase space dynamics of classically smooth observables. The results reveal subtle consequences of the uncertainty principle.

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