Variational study of a two-level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator in a ultrastrong coupling regime

Abstract

The nonclassical behaviors of a two-level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator is investigated in the ultrastrong coupling regime. We revisit the variational solution of the ground state and find that the existing solution do not account accurately for nonclassical effects such squeezing. We suggest a new trial wave function and demonstrate that it has an excellent accuracy on the quantum correlation effects as well as on energy.

4 pages; 3 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. A

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