Atomic spatial coherence with spontaneous emission in a strong-coupling cavity

作者:Fang Zhen; Guo Rui; Zhou Xiaoji; Chen Xuzong
来源:Physical Review A, 2010, 82(1): 015601.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.82.015601

摘要

The role of spontaneous emission in the interaction between a two-level atom and a pumped microcavity in the strong-coupling regime is discussed. In particular, using a quantum Monte Carlo simulation, we investigate atomic spatial coherence. It is found that atomic spontaneous emission destroys the coherence between neighboring lattice sites, while cavity decay does not. Furthermore, our computation of the spatial coherence function shows that the in-site locality is little affected by the cavity decay but greatly depends on the cavity pump amplitude.