Abstract

There is a considerable interest in the study of the interaction of atoms with nonclassical radiation. In particular the inhibition or enhancement of the decay of an atomic dipole due to a squeezed reservoir has played a central role in this realm. Unfortunately this phenomenon does not become very transparent in the treatment of a non-Hamiltonian system. In the present paper we use the Jaynes-Cummings (J.C.) model to point out a similar effect: We show that the decay of the real part 〈S_x〉 and the imaginary part 〈S_y〉 of the atomic dipole decay differently when the two-level atom is coupled to a single mode of the cavity radiation field which is in a squeezed vacuum state.

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