Phys. Rev. A 67, 027801 (2003) [3 pages]Comment on “Collective effects and trapping states by a quantum-trajectory treatment of micromaser dynamics”Received 25 October 2001; revised 22 March 2002; published 25 February 2003 A quantum trajectory analysis of the steady-state photon statistics of a micromaser by Casagrande and collaborators [F. Casagrande et al., Phys. Rev. A 60, 1582 (1999)] shows a significant suppression of the trapping behavior due to the inclusion of two-atom events. We use numerical integration in our investigation and obtain results that disagree with their analysis and show less suppression of the trapping behavior. A comparison with two extreme cases places our results between the two extremes and gives us confidence that our calculations are correct. The results of Casagrande and collaborators do not satisfy this condition. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.027801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.67.027801
PACS:
42.50.Ct, 42.55.-f, 42.50.Dv
See AlsoOriginal Article: F. Casagrande, A. Lulli, and S. Ulzega, Collective effects and trapping states by a quantum-trajectory treatment of micromaser dynamics, Phys. Rev. A 60, 1582 (1999). |
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