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Phys. Rev. A 56, 4273–4277 (1997)

Resonance fluorescence near a photonic band edge: Dressed-state Monte Carlo wave-function approach

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Tran Quang and Sajeev John
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7

Received 2 June 1997; published in the issue dated November 1997

We introduce a dressed-state Monte Carlo wave-function technique to describe resonance fluorescence in a broad class of non-Markovian reservoirs with strong atom-reservoir interaction. The method recaptures photon localization effects which are beyond the Born and Markovian approximations, and describes the influence of the driving field on the atom-reservoir interaction. Using this approach, we predict a number of fundamentally new features in resonance fluorescence near the edge of a photonic band gap. In particular, the atomic population exhibits inversion for moderate applied field intensity. For a low external field intensity, the atomic system retains a long-time memory of its initial state.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.4273
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.56.4273
PACS:
42.50.Lc, 42.50.Hz, 32.80.-t

See Also

Comment: Klaus Mølmer and Søren Bay, Comment on “Resonance fluorescence near a photonic band edge: Dressed-state Monte Carlo wave-function approach”, Phys. Rev. A 59, 904 (1999).