Abstract

The Tavis-Cummings model¹ is one of the few exactly solvable quantum models in nonlinear optics: it consists of N > 1 2-level atoms interacting with a single mode of the quantised radiation field. The N atoms occupy a single site as in the Dicke model²; but there is no coupling to other modes of the field and no conventional radiation damping. Since the single mode is quantised in a cavity of finite volume this can be thought of as a physical cavity of infinite Q.

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