Atomic spatial coherence with spontaneous emission in a strong coupling cavity
arXiv:1007.0794 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.82.015601
Abstract
The role of spontaneous emission in the interaction between a two-level atom and a pumped micro-cavity in the strong coupling regime is discussed in this paper. Especially, 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 the 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.
4 pages, 5 figures, accepted by PRA
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