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Title: Vacuum-induced Berry phases in single-mode Jaynes-Cummings models

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Quantum Optoelectronics Laboratory, School of Physics and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031 (China)
  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006 (China)

Motivated by work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 220404 (2002)] for detecting the vacuum-induced Berry phases with two-mode Jaynes-Cummings models (JCMs), we show here that, for a parameter-dependent single-mode JCM, certain atom-field states also acquired photon-number-dependent Berry phases after the parameter slowly changed and eventually returned to its initial value. This geometric effect related to the field quantization still exists, even if the field is kept in its vacuum state. Specifically, a feasible Ramsey interference experiment with a cavity quantum electrodynamics system is designed to detect the vacuum-induced Berry phase.

OSTI ID:
21452624
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 82, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.045801; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English